Guest blogger: David Teufel, Branch Commissioner – Heritage, The Scout Association of Australia, Queensland Branch Inc. With the first Scout troops starting in Queensland in 1908, Scouting has been part of many communities across the State for over a century. Many thousands of young people and adults have enjoyed and benefited from their Scouting experience. … Read more
Guest blogger: Dr Jennifer Moffatt, 2018 John Oxley Library Fellow. Over almost 100 years1, thousands of Queenslanders won millions of hectares of agricultural land by ballot. This resulted from long standing national and state policies encouraging the more intensive use of agricultural land to increase food production2. In the 1950s more than half of the … Read more
Guest blogger: Debbie Terranova – QANZAC100 Fellow. Among State Library of Queensland’s collections are four dainty cloth-covered diaries. The War Diaries of Joan Peeters (nee Taylor) cover the period from 1941 to 1944. On the opening cover of 1941, Joan makes her intention quite clear: her diary is to be a record of the war. … Read more
Guest blogger: Dr Hilary Davies, 2018 Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame Fellow. Between 1905 and 1929, the Canada Cycle and Motor Agency (Qld) Ltd (CCM) put Queenslanders on the road in a wide variety of motor vehicles. Owned by Queensland investors and headquartered in Brisbane, the CCM had branches in Rockhampton, Townsville and Lismore, … Read more
Guest blogger: Emeritus Professor Peter Roennfeldt – recipient of the 2018 Letty Katts Award An empty auditorium facing a stage that is full of potential – if only walls (and floorboards) could talk! From its opening in 1901 until its demolition in 1969 to make way for Brisbane’s first skyscraper (the SGIO / Suncorp Building), … Read more
Guest Blogger – Dr Lauren Istvandity, 2017 John Oxley Library Fellow. What do the defence forces and our local jazz scene have in common? Musicians, of course! In decades past, Australian Defence Force bands have played a key role in sustaining the jazz scene in Queensland, while the locally-trained musicians upheld the Queensland-based bands which … Read more
Guest blogger: Melissa Fagan – author of What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters Story. September 2018 marks the 120-year anniversary of the opening of McWhirter & Son, the cash drapery that went on to become one of Queensland’s biggest and best-loved department stores. In 1894, my great-great grandfather James McWhirter senior began working for T.C. … Read more
Guest Blog – Presentation by Ken Brooks for Maryborough Library Local History Talk Brennan & Geraghty’s Store in Maryborough is owned by National Trust Queensland (1975) and is operated as a museum about itself and its place in the community of Maryborough. Established in 1871 by brothers-in-law Patrick Brennan and Martin Geraghty, the store remained … Read more
Well, at least it is according to the volunteers who run the Russian Club of Brisbane, the first and oldest Russian Club in Australia. Built on Trafalgar Street, Woolloongabba in 1928 by “White Russian” refugees of the civil war, the club was the second Russian community institution to be built in Australia. The first was … Read more
Guest blogger: Tony Brett Young. In recent years a block of grazing land in Queensland’s outback 1,000 km from Brisbane has become a peaceful refuge for ex-service people who want to get away from it all. But Tony Brett Young recalls his lonely childhood in the late 1940s on the property that was then an … Read more
