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Wonderful Warana: Queensland’s Own Spring Festival
Source: John Oxley Library, HPT FES 023. In a simpler and more innocent age Brisbane had the Warana Festival, a great annual Spring extravaganza which began in 1962 and included a 2 hour parade through...
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Croydon Estate, [Banyo], 1888 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. Plan of the Croydon Estate on the main Sandgate...
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Digitised @ SLQ – Queensland’s fabulous Gold Coast : “the playground of...
Queensland’s fabulous Gold Coast : “the playground of Australia”. 1950s. (copyright undetermined). John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland State Library of Queensland recently digitised...
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125th anniversary of the Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party
The Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party, dated 9 September 1892, can be regarded as one of the formative documents of the present day Australian Labor Party. Manifesto of the Queensland Labour...
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Albion Hill Estate, [Albion and Clayfield], 1899 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. Albion Hill Estate, 1899. John Oxley Library, State...
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Queensland Places – Normanton – Former Bank of New South Wales Building
The former Bank of New South Wales, now Westpac Bank, Normanton building was constructed in 1886 as the bank’s permanent premises in the town, intended to serve the Normanton region. The establishment...
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Peace Loan Aeroplane crashes in Gympie (1919)
Wreck of the Peace Loan Aeroplane at Gympie. The photograph shows the machine after it had been cut down. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Image 702692-19190927-0026 On September 17,...
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Life and adventures on the ocean : shipwrecks and pirates!
Ahoy Shipmates! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day once again and so it be fitting to pen a story of adventure on the oceans. Today’s nautical adventure comes courtesy of Captain Henry Holmes,...
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Kedron Park, Lutwyche [Wooloowin], 1888 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. Kedron Park, Lutwyche [Wooloowin], 1888. John Oxley...
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The “Curry” CELEBRATIONS
Starting September 15 the people of Cloncurry and district came out to host local celebrations marking 150 years of settlement since Ernest Henry was attributed as the founder of Cloncurry in the year...
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Flotsam from the 2/3 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur
In this Centaur story, Dr Madonna Grehan, 2015 John Oxley Fellow, provides context for a photograph in the Centaur Memorial Fund collection at SLQ. Photograph from the Centaur Memorial Fund collection,...
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Morningside Estate, Booval, 1887 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. Morningside Estate, Booval, 1887. John Oxley...
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Fourex advertises on Hornibrook Highway in 1937
Guest blogger: Julie Hornibrook, 2015 Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame Fellow. The annual anniversary of the opening of the Hornibrook Highway, in 1935, is coming up on 4 October – this year...
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Queensland’s first female Premier (10th anniversary)
On September 13, 2007, Anna Bligh, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of South Brisbane and Deputy Premier was sworn in as the 37th Premier of Queensland, following the retirement of...
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Questions within Questions
Guest blogger: Tess Maunder – 2017 Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence. Tess Maunder, 2017 Mittelhauser Scholar-in-Residence All good research begins with the act of asking questions, and through this...
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Queensland Places – Thursday Island – European Businesses in the 1880s
On Thursday Island during the last part of the nineteenth century, alongside those businesses operated by people representing a wide range of countries and backgrounds, particularly those of Chinese...
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Sparkling Wave Estate, Southport, 1882 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. Sparkling Wave Estate, Southport, 1882. John Oxley...
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Queensland Jazz Memories – Protecting histories of pre-1970s jazz scenes
Guest blogger: Dr Lauren Istvandity – 2017 John Oxley Library Fellow. Queensland has long been known for producing quality musicians and supporting diverse music scenes, including those based in jazz....
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The artist and the code breakers
Guest blogger: Dr Judith Powell – Q ANZAC 100 Fellow. What connects two historic houses in the Brisbane suburbs of Ascot and Hamilton with the life of one of Australia’s most significant, notorious and...
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Gordon Park : The Pride of Kedron, Section Nine, Brisbane, 1922 (Map of the...
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. Gordon Park : The pride of Kedron, section nine,...
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