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Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame 2014 Induction Dinner
Business Leaders' Hall of Fame Induction Dinner, 2014 On Thursday 17 July I had the pleasure of attending the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame 2014 Induction Dinner at the Brisbane Convention...
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Queensland Places – Keiraville, Ipswich
This grand Ipswich residence, located in Roderick Street, has long been a part of the city’s history, dating from 1886. It is believed to have been built for the Cribb family by local building...
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Sharing stories from Multicultural Communities
“What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating...
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Brisbane City Botanic Gardens and the New National Trust Significant Tree...
Guest blogger: Margaret Munro – Volunteer, City Botanic Gardens App for National Trusts of Australia: Register of Significant Trees Queensland has many outstanding trees. The 2,000 year old Antarctic...
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Vale Blair Wilson
Brisbane architect Blair Wilson recently passed away, aged 83. Born in 1930, Blair began his architectural education in 1949, attending the Brisbane Central Technical College and the University of...
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A long ride on a tall bicycle : Sydney to Rockhampton in 1884
No doubt many readers have been following the recent Tour de France but the impressive performances of the riders in that classic event in many ways pale to insignificance when compared to the epic...
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Podcast: Johnstone Gallery (A night in the JOL)
The Johnstone Gallery operated in Brisbane from 1950–72, a seminal time in the development of an audience for contemporary art in Australia. The gallery represented major Australian artists including...
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Queensland Places – Wild Irish Girl Reef, Mine and Crushing Works, Palmer River
The Palmer River Gold Field followed a similar pattern to many other gold mining fields. Beginning as rich sources of alluvial gold, the fields then evolved into surface or deep reef mining areas,...
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A Golden Opportunity for Gold Coast Community Museums
Guest Blogger: Josh Tarrant - Museum Development Officer- South East Queensland Region Recently, members of the Gold Coast Heritage Voice network were treated to a behind the Scenes tour of both the...
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Queensland Places – Coen
The name of the town of Coen is said to have been derived from the Cape York Peninsula river of the same name. The river was originally named by the Dutch navigator Jan Carstensz, during his 1623...
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Researching Queensland’s fashion business history
Guest bloggers: Nadia Buick and Madeleine King from The Fashion Archives Jenyns Illustrated medical ad 1910s When most people think of ‘business’ they imagine serious corporations and enterprises, not...
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Queensland Places – HMS Dart and the naming of some Cape York locations
In the late 1890s, the government survey vessel HMS Dart was undertaking on-going hydrographic survey work in the waters of far North Queensland. As well as this work preparing more detailed surveys,...
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Forgotten Australians: Micah Pilot Oral History and Digital Story Project
“[f]ar from being simply complementary to each other, memory and history tell of very different relationships to the past than we can or do possess” – Dipesh Chakrabarty* “In a room where people...
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News this week in September 1914
This week in 1914 included speculation that Russia may relax restrictions against Jews, as an official announcement revealed that commissions in the Russian Army and Navy would now be made available to...
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60 000 high resolution images for free download
Immediate access to 60,000 high resolution historic and contemporary Queensland images is now available free from State Library of Queensland. Out-of-copyright and Creative Commons-licenced images can...
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Queensland Places – Cape York and Torres Strait Regions – Queensland...
The QGK Melbidir was a well-known vessel in the Torres Strait and Gulf regions, operating from around 1900 up until the 1950s. But, in fact, there were three vessels called the Melbidir with the second...
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BANNED COMICS – LOVE ILLUSTRATED
The romance comic Love illustrated was banned in Queensland in 1954, one of the first ten publications banned by the newly created Queensland Literature Board of Review. Love illustrated no 9 The...
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The great and not so great fires of 1864
Guest Blogger: Susan Boulton – Queensland State Archives Fire presented a grave risk to the timber-built shops which were commonly built in Brisbane 150 years ago. Three separate fires occurred in the...
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Karl Langer Architectural Plans
Karl Langer, architect, town planner, and landscape architect was one of the most influential Queensland architect’s of the 1950s. Doctor Karl Langer, Brisbane 1950 Born in Vienna, he was head...
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Queensland Places – Sweers Island
Sweers Island is located to the east of Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria. The island was named in 1802 by Matthew Flinders during his voyage of circumnavigation, in honour of Cornelius...
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