Latest consultancies
2023 Consultant: ABC documentary: Black Hand
2022 Consultant: Historical context and advice for painting of mural on walls of FRONTON, Trebonne, north Queensland (artist funded by RADF grant)
Latest engagements
2022 Engaged by: Townsville City Council to work on Highways and Byways project
2022 Engaged by: S. Kaurila to assist writing of Kaurila family history (ongoing)
2021 Engaged by: Hinchinbrook Shire Council to write information for story board for FRONTON, Trebonne, north Queensland
Latest grant work
2023 Regional Arts Development Fund: Research origins of street/road names in Hinchinbrook Shire
2022 Regional Arts Development Fund: Window in Time oral history project
Latest collaboration
2021 John Naish Archive. James Cook University, North Queensland Heritage, Special Collections (ongoing)
Latest Publications
2023 Naish, John (Jack) (1923-1963), author and playwright. Welsh Dictionary of Biography, online, 16 May 2023.
2023 'A Beaut of a Cut Near Cairns: The Butty Gang System in the Cane Fields in John Naish's Cruel Field', Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History, Volume 124, Issue 1 May 2023, pp. 31-61.
2021 'Window in Time, a Community Oral History Project: Its Challenges, Shortcomings and Lessons Learnt', Studies in Oral History, Volume 43, 2021, pp. 214-217.
2021 'Melanesian Indentured Labourer Annie Etinside hailed as a Queensland Pioneer on her Death', The Conversation. Published: May 19, 2021. [co-authored with Dr Claire Brennan]
2020 'The mercurial Henry Alexander Wickham: "American tobacco planter" on the Herbert', Queensland History Journal, Volume 24, No 7, November 2020, pp 628-641.
2020 'The Hawai'ian Sugar Planters' Association and the Herbert River Farmers' Association: Regional Articulations of Agricultural Associations on the Periphery', International Journal of Regional and Local History, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2020.
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Blogspots
2020 50 Treasures: James Cassady's Notebook, JCU Library News. Further information, NQHeritage@JCU.
2016 Portraits and Personalities of Townsville: James Morrill, wandering in the Tropics, JCU Library News.
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The Daring Mrs Conn
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