Remembrance Day marks the end of First World War hostilities, but did the war truly end on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918? As part of the Q ANZAC 100: Memories for a New Generation program, The Long Tail of War Symposium will explore the aftermath of war … Read more
Last week, retired school teacher Desley Affleck attended a State Library Q ANZAC 100 Caring for Collections clinic at Redcliffe Museum, cradling a large black photo album and a precariously wrapped brown paper package. Inside Desley’s album were original photographs, newspaper clippings and various letters written by, or to, her Great Uncle, Captain Frank Page, … Read more
On 20 April, 2018, Q ANZAC 100 representative Niles Elvery had the pleasure of participating in the launch event for the Q ANZAC 100 projection at Rockhampton Regional Library. The guests were enthusiastically welcomed to the Rockhampton Regional Library by Ann-Maree Dyer, Client Services Supervisor at the library. The library is hosing the projection from 20 April to … Read more
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery launched For Country, for Nation exhibition on Friday 13 April 2018. Through objects, photographs, and art commissioned and acquired by the Australian War Memorial, For Country, for Nation tells stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander military service and sacrifice. At the launch, Gavin Bannerman, Director Queensland Memory spoke about uncovering of … Read more
Brisbane here you come! State Library is offering travel bursaries of up to $500 to attend the Q ANZAC 100 Indigenous Soldiers Forum and Workshop. There are five bursaries for individuals/organisations from across Queensland to attend the Indigenous Soldiers Forum and Workshop on Friday 22 June 2018 at State Library of Queensland in Brisbane. As … Read more
Guest blogger: Rose Wright, Arts Program teacher, Maryborough Special School Imagine you are a shy student teacher out for your first classroom placement—in a special school, no less— and walking into the late stages of a whole-school WW1 commemorative production. It is comparable to —a century before—those arrivals at Gallipoli in late 1915, with the … Read more
One hundred years ago, on 20 December 1917, a second referendum around the topic of conscription was put to the Australian people by Prime Minister Billy Hughes. The question asked was: Are you in favour of the proposal of the Commonwealth Government for reinforcing the Commonwealth Forces overseas?’ As the war in Europe dragged on, Britain … Read more
In 2016, State Library accessioned the collection of Miss Eliza Ethel Irvine (Lylia) Fegan A.T.O.L. (1887-1950), a leading Queensland elocutionist, musician, accompanist and teacher, known for her well-organised concerts and concert parties around the years of the First World War. The daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Fegan, Lylia and her brother Humphrey (Ray) were raised in Brisbane, and … Read more
Guest blogger: Elaine Acworth – 2015 Q ANZAC 100 Fellow. In January 2012 my mother had a stroke. It was Sunday morning – we were eating yum-cha in the Valley – and my sister phoned, saying Mum had been taken to hospital… Months later, she had recovered her speech and movement but her memory and … Read more
Guest blogger: Honor Auchinleck. Over sixty years ago on 16 November 1954, at the time of a proposal to erect an equestrian statue of Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey, a writer in Melbourne’s broadsheet The Age asked, ‘Why not an equestrian statue of Sir Harry Chauvel?’ General Sir Harry Chauvel was best known throughout Australia … Read more
