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
Guest Blogger: Elizabeth DeLacy, Brisbane Valley Heritage Trails. The pioneers of the Brisbane River Valley were renowned horsemen. Articles uncovered in the Moreton Bay Courier and Sydney Morning Herald reveal interesting facts about local identities and settlement in the district. Colin Mackenzie of Kilcoy Station was a steward at the first meeting of the Moreton … Read more
Guest bloggers Grace Dowdle and Kelsey Frith : 2018 Mittelheuser Interns As part of the 2018 Mittelheuser Internship Program, we had the opportunity to delve into some of the World War II (WWII) Collections held at the State Library of Queensland. Throughout the week, we had access to a range of original materials relating to Queensland’s … Read more
Mrs. Joan Keith recently donated dozens of Queensland theatre programs from the 1950s to State Library of Queensland. Many local theatres are represented including Albert Hall, All Saints Hall, Gowrie Hall in the Brisbane area and regional theatres as well. She shares the following about her love of theatre in Queensland and Victoria. “I began … Read more
Guest blogger: Chris Hall, President of the Brisbane Bushwalkers Club Inc. In June 2017 the biggest walking club in Brisbane embarked on a partnership with the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) to digitise all of the Brisbane Bushwalker magazines in their collection. This project was funded by SLQ as part of the Community Heritage Digitisation … Read more
Guest blogger: Tess Maunder – 2017 Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence As the 2017 Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence, my research has focused on the intersection of contemporary curatorial practice, digital futures and archives. As I’ve spoken about in previous blog posts, curatorial practices today have a wide variety of formats. Today for this post I am focusing on the role … Read more
Guest blogger: Dr Madonna Grehan – 2015 John Oxley Library Fellow. Monday 14 May 2018 marks the 75th anniversary of the sinking of an Australian Hospital ship (AHS) by enemy action, 100 km off the coast of Queensland, east of Moreton Island. The ship was the newly commissioned 2/3 AHS Centaur. On 14 May 1943, … Read more
