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Police Remembrance Day 2019
This year marks a thirty year milestone for National Police Remembrance Day services, which have been held in regional centres throughout Queensland since 1989. National Police Remembrance Day is a...
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Brisbane Arcade
The Brisbane Arcade is celebrating 95 years as Brisbane’s oldest and grandest shopping arcade, from 1924-2019. 95 years celebration sign in Brisbane Arcade. Photographer Tania Schafer In celebration...
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100th anniversary of Edward Granville Theodore becoming Queensland Premier
Today marks 100th anniversary of Edward Granville Theodore becoming Queensland Premier. Edward Granville Theodore 1 June 1915. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Neg 67744 Theodore...
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Sound as historical material: developing a new way of cataloguing, describing...
Guest blogger: Seth Ellis – 2019 Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence. I’m the Mittelheuser scholar in residence, which means my job is to “develop new ideas, tools, strategies and services” for the...
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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2019: Bert Hinkler’s ‘gospel of the air’
Bert Hinkler from Bundaberg, Queensland, became the first person to fly solo from England to Australia. Hinkler’s successful flight was a feat the world had not yet seen, nor expected. Leaving with no...
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Anyone know the location?…
The State Library of Queensland has tens of thousands of its photographs digitsed and available to share and download through our One Search Catalogue, however we don’t always know the details of...
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Maria, Queen of Childers
Maria, Queen of Childers has always interested me, as there are a multitude of images in our collection, and it was a rarity for an Aboriginal woman to be given a breast plate (Kingplate – Regalia)....
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages Blog
Did you know that since 2014, the State Library has its own Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages Blog! State Library’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages Blog. Over the past 5...
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Greetings.
Did you know that State Library has compiled over 115 greetings from 91 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages across Queensland? In 2014, the original “Say G’day” initiative, State Library...
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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages.
2019 has been an exciting year for the celebration of the International Year of Indigenous Languages. As announced in December 2017 by the United Nations, the overarching theme for IYIL2019 is...
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Opening of the Regent Theatre, Brisbane (1929)
“A new era in theatrical entertainment in Brisbane was ushered in last night when Hoyts Theatres Ltd. opened the doors of the Regent Theatre to more than 3,000 people”, reported Brisbane newspaper The...
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Atlas Café, Brisbane
The Atlas Café, located at Atlas Chambers, 27 Adelaide Street in Brisbane’s CBD, was operated by Greek migrant George Sklavos, starting some time during the mid-1920s. Sklavos is first listed as the...
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‘You won a piece of dirt … but that’s where the lottery part of it finished’:...
Guest blogger: Dr Jennifer Moffatt, 2018 John Oxley Library Fellow. Balloting was big in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The government wanted to increase agricultural production so needed more farmers 1....
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Universal Children’s Day
The Right to Play by Arja Gullvik (11 years) Rainworth State School Created as part of the project ‘Children have rights’. ACC 7116/1/22 Dr Barbara Piscitelli AM Children’s Art Archive. John Oxley...
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Hotel Corones, Charleville
Migrating from Kythera, Greece, Haralambos (Harry) Corones first leased the Charleville Hotel in 1913 and began expanding business opportunities in the region with his nephew Jim. In the mid-1920s...
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Banging the Drumstick: The creative and cultural legacy of the women and...
Guest blogger: Tricia King – 2019 Place Making Fellow. Many of us have enjoyed the taste and experience of savoring a Peters Drumstick, a Choc Wedge or have plunged a spoon into a 2L tub of Neapolitan...
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Aboriginal Placenames of South-East Queensland.
South-East Queensland Placenames, Meston. Aboriginal placenames generate a lot of discussion regarding meanings, translations, etc. – in fact, over the course of the International Year of Indigenous...
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An introduction of the history of Chinese business in Queensland
Guest blogger – Rutian Mi, 2019 Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame fellow. There are many studies on Chinese immigrant history in Queensland but few studies have been done about Chinese business...
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Aboriginal Loanwords in English!
One of the interesting facts about Aboriginal languages is that many people would not be aware that they are already saying Aboriginal words!! Kangaroo from the painting by George Stubbs, in Endeavour...
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Greek cafés a specialty in Queensland’s central west
Guest blogger: Tony Brett Young, writer. Not many of his customers knew his real name. To most of us he was just ‘Spesh’ — Spesh who ran the Mayfair (or was it the Paris?), a Greek café in Oak Street,...
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