February 22, 2018
Constance Schoelch has volunteered to undertake research for the Harry Gentle Resource Centre and is currently writing biographies on some of the early colonial policemen of Brisbane. Constance is eager to increase her knowledge about Australian history and her work with the Centre will help meet that goal. Constance completed a… Read More
January 25, 2018
We are again offering a $5,000 Honours Scholarship for 2018 with a closing date of 4 February. Read more here. Read More
January 25, 2018
The HGRC again calls for applications for a Visiting Fellowship with a closing date of 31 March 2018. We are looking particularly for proposals involving the timbergetters, escaped convicts, the convict sites at Stradbroke Island and Redcliffe, station diaries, and topics dealing with the poly-ethnic society emerging around the various industries in Queensland… Read More
January 11, 2018
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars from each state and territory are taking part in a collaborative project, preparing an Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography with nearly 200 new biographies. New entries will emphasise the contribution to community and family life, representing a move away from only including subjects… Read More
December 28, 2017
Aboriginal elder Darby McCarthy and Dr Mark Copland, an alumnus of Griffith university, discuss the creation story of Mee-wah or Table Top Mountain near Toowoomba with Belinda Sanders (ABC Southern Queensland). The legend of its flat top is the centre of a tourism project by the Toowoomba Regional Council’s… Read More
December 19, 2017
On 9 October 2017 Dr Margaret Shield was appointed as a Visiting Fellow with the HGRC. Margaret’s research centres on the duties and influence of the Crown Lands Commissioners in Pre-Separation Queensland. Read the biography of John Bidwill, Crown Lands Commissioner for the Wide Bay region, after whom the… Read More
November 23, 2017
The HGRC extends a warm welcome to Amanda Spinks who is working as a Research Assistant for the Centre under the Griffith Humanities Undergraduate Research Intern Program. Graduating with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in History, Amanda plans to commence the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) program at Griffith in trimester… Read More
November 7, 2017
The Digital Panopticon has been added to our resources page. Tracing London convicts in Britain & Australia, 1780-1925, the website allows you to search millions of records from around fifty datasets, relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts from the Old Bailey. Use the site to search individual convict life archives,… Read More
November 3, 2017
A Queensland Timeline pre-1600s-1859 has been added under projects. Read More
October 31, 2017
During Trimester 3, Deklan Kelly, a Griffith University Community Internship student, will be undertaking research for the Harry Gentle Resource Centre, under the supervision of Dr Margaret Shield. He will spend one day a week for 12 weeks transcribing and analysing archival documents related to the operation of the Border… Read More
September 29, 2017
This updated register was compiled using a variety of primary and secondary sources by Marilyn England in 2014. It is published under Rare Books and documents. Marilyn has kindly given us permission to publish the register on the Harry Gentle Resource Centre website. Read More
September 4, 2017
A transcription of Captain Patrick Logan’s Diary is now published under Rare Books and Documents. Logan’s diary contains regular entries related to the daily running of the settlement as well as details of his exploration of the region. Included is a letter written by Lt George Edwards of the… Read More
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