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SLQ’s Conservation Unit comes to the rescue
Guest blogger: Geoff Wharton, historian On 27 May 2013, Her Excellency Mrs Annemieke Ruigrok, the Netherlands Ambassador to Australia, visited the Mapoon community on Western Cape York Peninsula to...
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Royal Charter – from record holder to shipwreck
Royal Charter As the storm season approaches, it’s timely to think about the origins of modern weather forecasting and the early perils of storms at sea. I learned about these issues recently when I...
View ArticleState Library Fellowships explore Queensland history
State Library of Queensland’s annual history research Fellowships opened on 28 March for applications from across Australia, announced State Librarian Janette Wright. Generously supported by the...
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South Sea Islanders at Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum
Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum The Don Juan sailed up the Brisbane River in 1863 with the first group of South Sea Islanders (SSI) indentured to Robert Towns for his Townsvale cotton plantation. Shortly...
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1911 cyclone
Two children sitting with a badly damaged piano amongst the debris from the Port Douglas cyclone of 1911 On March 16, 1911, a cyclone devastated the small Far North Queensland community of Port...
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A colourful convict and Moreton Bay: James Hardy Vaux
James Hardy Vaux The life of James Hardy Vaux is extraordinary on many counts. He was intelligent and, by the standards of the time, well-educated. He was given many opportunities to improve himself...
View Article“Changeover Day”, 14 February 1966
February 14, 1966 saw the introduction of decimal currency to Australia. On Changeover Day, the old system of pounds, shillings and pence gave way to the new dollars and cents. A year earlier, an...
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Playback Oral History Workshop – June 5 – 6
Do you recall members of your family sitting by the wireless listening to the voice of the radio announcer in your lifetime, or the voice of a person sharing their own account of an actual experience...
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Golf in Queensland
Golf in Queensland is said to have had its genesis at Eidsvold cattle station, near Gayndah, with the development of a small golf course on the property by its two Scottish lessees, the Ivory brothers....
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Have Your Say!
State Library of Queensland is developing a fresh plan for the future. SLQ2020 will be a five year plan which will set a high level direction for State Library to ensure our programs and services meet...
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Accession M 1750: Jules Guerassimoff Cutting Books
Accession M 1750 This interesting accession contains two large scrapbooks with press cuttings and photographs about Jules Guerassimoff’s rugby career with the Wallabies, including newspaper articles...
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Accession 6341: Dr Wilhelm Lorenz Rechnitz Papers, John Oxley Library, State...
Reverend Dr. Wilhelm Rechnitz, 1930 (Image number 6341-0001-0001) In 2006 the State Library of Queensland received an extensive collection of correspondence, personal papers, photographs and scholarly...
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Queenslanders celebrate NYE, 1934
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, December 27, 1934 On the evening of December 31, 1934, partygoers across the state prepared to celebrate the coming of the new year, as illustrated in The...
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Research station recognised for posterity
Guest blogger: Susan Boulton, Queensland State Archives In August 2014, the Meringa Sugar Experiment Station was entered on the Queensland Heritage Register as a State Heritage Place. The Station...
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Shorncliffe Pier – Out with the old and in with the new
Formerly known as Sandgate Pier, this long structure with its white timber rails and colonial lamps was completed in 1882. The Sandgate Pier Company Limited was formed on the 16 February 1882 to...
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Queensland sportsmen who served during WW1 – Alan Marshal
Queensland Cricket Team members, 1910. Alan Marshal is in the back row. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Neg 130143 Alan Marshal was born in Warwick on June 12, 1883, later moving to...
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3 schools added to the Queensland Heritage Register
Three schools have been added to the Queensland Heritage Register this month Marburg State School (first opened in 1879 – moved to its current site in 1922); Murgon State School (opened in 1908) and...
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Calling all nominations!
What comes round each year… …recognises excellence in library research… …celebrates the contribution of new knowledge… …and recognises the achievements of an individual or community group passionate...
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Strand Theatre, Toowoomba (100th anniversary)
2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Strand Theatre, located on Margaret Street in Toowoomba. Advertisement for the Strand Theatre in Toowoomba. From The Darling Downs: the garden of...
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The Adventures of Bill Yaxley
Brisbane art dealer Bruce Heiser with artist Bill Yaxley at the opening of The Adventures of Bill Yaxley at the Rockhampton Art Gallery on Saturday 9 April. Brisbane art dealer Bruce Heiser with artist...
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