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…

PHA Qld member Tim Bottoms has recently completed a new digital project titled Massacre Recollections: Elders Stories of the Frontier Wars in FNQ. In this video, Bottoms has worked with a number of indigenous elders to recount specific acts of frontier violence. Accounts are recorded from the late Kenny Jimmy from Kowanyama, Jack Muriata (Girramay), David Lawrence (Girramay) and Bessie Jerry,…