A number of bursaries are available for PHA members to attend the National Conference in Adelaide in September 2023. PHA Qld Bursaries PHA Qld is offering two $300 bursaries for PHA Qld members to attend the conference. These are primarily for new graduates or early career historians to put towards any conference-related expenses (such as travel, registration or accommodation). Application process:– email secretary@qldhistorians.org.au,…
PHA NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2023 OTHER HISTORIES, OTHER AUDIENCES 16-17 September 2023 | Adelaide, South Australia On 16 and 17 September 2023, PHA members from around Australia convened in Adelaide, South Australia, for the national conference. The theme of the conference is OTHER HISTORIES: OTHER AUDIENCES. The conference showcased the diversity of work undertaken by professional historians and explored challenges confronting them…
‘INUNDATED’: FLOODS, HISTORY, AND HIGH WATER An oration by Dr Margaret Cook At the second annual Wilson History Oration, eminent environmental historian and PHA Qld member Dr Margaret Cook will explore the ways historians can engage with the public, the media, other professions, and policy makers. In discussing her work on floods, she will highlight how her role and training…
Dr Ian Howie-Willis Dr Ian Howie-Willis is an independent professional historian with more than five decades of experience in the research and writing of Australian history. He has published in four separate domains - Indigenous history; military history; pre-hospital history; and the history of Papua-New Guinea. He is the author or co-author of more than twenty books, and has also…
PHA Qld member Jan Richardson has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship with the Harry Gentle Resource Centre at Griffith University, which supports research on Queensland’s pre-1859 history, including that of the region’s First Nations people, the Moreton Bay penal settlement (1824-1839) and the free settlement era from 1842. Her project, “Offenders, paupers and ‘pioneers’: Convict women and their families in…
As a part of his research into the art of Queensland before 1859, PHA Qld member Timothy Roberts has looked into the life and work of early Darling Downs squatter Thomas John Domville Taylor.Taylor arrived on the Downs by 1842 and was one of the earliest European settlers to visually record the landscape in which he lived and worked. He also…
At the November meeting of the New Farm & Districts Historical Society, PHA Qld member Margaret Cook delivered a presentation on the Brisbane River. The NFDHS has kept an audiovisual record of the presentation, which is available to view here.
A group of PHA Qld members and guests met at the FoodConnect Shed in Salisbury on 11 October for a day of celebration. Held in conjunction with the Association's Annual General Meeting, the day began with an overview of the precinct and its connections to Brisbane's wartime and manufacturing history, led by PHA Qld member Beryl Roberts. In her discussion,…
PHA Qld member Timothy Roberts contributed to the exhibition Friendship as a Way of Life, displayed at UNSW Galleries, Sydney, 8 May - 21 November 2020. In July, Roberts presented an illustrated talk on the politics, culture and histories of motor clubs in Australia. These clubs for same-sex attracted men were able to connect socially, especially during the 1970s-1990s, a…
PHA Qld member Margaret Cook's book "A River with a City Problem" has been shortlisted for the 2020 The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award as a part of the Queensland Literary Awards.Follow the link to see the shortlisted titles, and vote for your favourite. All titles are available at the The Library Shop, State Library of…