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…
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…
A powder puff used in a criminal prosecution; a set of slides from an international holiday; the humble telephone and the not-so-modest Speedo are all put on the spotlight in Queer Objects, a new book edited by Chris Brickell and Judith Collard, published by University of Otago Press in collaboration with Manchester University Press and Rutgers University Press. PHA member…
The Queensland Atlas of Religion (QAR) is an exciting new project based in the University of Queensland’s School of Historical & Philosophical Inquiry (St Lucia campus, Brisbane). The QAR project was awarded ARC Linkage funding this year for three years, and will analyse and document patterns of religious diversity in Queensland presently and in the past. While there is an…
On 18 October 2019, Queensland State Archives with the Griffith University Harry Gentle Resource Centre presented a seminar by Dr Annemarie McLaren titled Peopling Place: Transcribing Sources for Brisbane’s Zion Hill Mission. A large audience, including descendants of the founding German missionaries, heard Annemarie discuss some of her initial findings from transcribing pages of documents held in the J D…
Professional Historians Association (Qld) Inc. is proud to announce the next Professional Historians Association conference will be held in Brisbane. Due to COVID-19, the conference will not proceed on the scheduled dates originally advertised. We will provide an update later in the year after reviewing Federal Government travel and public gathering restrictions, and will communicate new dates for the conference…
Continuing their ongoing research into frontier violence in Queensland, PHA Qld members Ray Kerkhove and Frank Uhr are publishing a new book on the Battle of One Tree Hill. The book will be launched at an event commemorating the resistance campaign, to be held at the Bill Gould Lookout, Toowoomba on Friday 13 September at noon. Please follow this link for further…
PHA Qld congratulates Dr Margaret Cook on her book A River with a City Problem: a history of Brisbane floods, recently published by University of Queensland Press. The book tells a compelling history of floods in the Brisbane River catchment, especially those in 1893, 1974 and 2011. Extensively researched, it highlights the force of nature, the vagaries of politics and the power of…
The Harry Gentle Rresource Centre is delighted to welcome PHA Qld member Tim Roberts as 2019 Visiting Fellow. Tim is a specialist in Australian art heritage, decorative arts and material culture to 1945 and is an experienced researcher and guest speaker..Tim’s project, Picturing the North: Representing Queensland before 1859, is the first major exploration of the art and artists of pre-separation…
PHA Qld congratulates Dr Anne Monsour on her new project, A CONTINUOUS THREAD: THE LEBANESE PRESENCE IN SOUTH BRISBANE, WOOLLOONGABBA AND WEST END, which is proudly funded through the Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor’s Helen Taylor Research Award for local history and also supported by the Australian Lebanese Historical Society (ALHS).Tracing the connecting thread from the early Syrian hawkers and shopkeepers of…