September 1, 2017
A transcription of Spicer’s Diary is now published under Rare Books and Documents. Peter Beauclerk Spicer, superintendent of convicts, compiled a journal describing daily life at the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement during the year 1828. The diary was transcribed by Marilyn England who has kindly given us permission to… Read More
August 10, 2017
An article was published in the Brisbane Times on 16 July 2017 covering Dr Anastasia Dukova’s public lecture on colonial policing in Queensland. The Harry Gentle Resource Centre joined with the Queensland State Archives to present a Seminar Series featuring the projects of our three Visiting Fellows. Read More
August 7, 2017
University of Newcastle historian, Professor Lyndall Ryan and her team of researchers, have created an online tool that records massacre site locations, details of the individual massacres and for the first time in the world, the sources corroborating evidence of the massacres. The map is publicly available here. Read More
August 7, 2017
Dr Jonathan Richards, Griffith University Visiting Fellow, discusses his digital mapping project, based on pre-separation records of the Native Police held at Queensland State Archives. Using historical maps and documents – and GPS software – Dr Richards located the places identified in QSA records to build a picture of… Read More
August 4, 2017
Papers from the First Legislative Council of NSW can now be viewed online via the NSW parliamentary site. According to the site it includes ‘tabled papers, SMH newspaper reports of debates, and documents relating to the administration of the First Council (classified as “non-tabled papers”)’. Read More
August 3, 2017
The Harry Gentle Resource Centre is hosting Emma Post, a Griffith University Community Internship student, one day a week for 3 months. Emma, working under the supervision of Dr Ray Kerkhove, will be identifying the 20 ‘most significant’ and most view-worthy sites of confrontation, injustice or conflict in the history… Read More
August 3, 2017
We are pleased to announce that Lisa Jones was recently awarded a full PhD Scholarship funded by the Harry Gentle Resource Centre. Lisa’s research focuses on a comparative study of Moreton Bay policing with that of Van Diemen’s Land policing across the period 1842 – 1859. Read More
August 3, 2017
The inaugural Harry Gentle Honours Scholarship for 2017 has been awarded to Dean Kerrison, a recent Griffith BA graduate and university medalist, to write a creative non-fiction account of the encounter between an Indigenous diplomat and a German missionary in the Moreton Bay region from the 1840s to the 1860s. Read More
July 31, 2017
On Sunday 10 September 2017 Redcliffe Remembers will transform the Redcliffe foreshore Precinct into historical hot-spots, celebrating and honouring the Peninsula’s iconic people and places, both past and present. Read More
July 28, 2017
The second Harry Gentle Resource Centre seminar was held at the Queensland State Archives on 16 June 2017. Dr Ray Kerkove spoke about his project of mapping the tide of Aboriginal resistance on the frontier. The video of Ray’s presentation can be assessed here. Read More
July 28, 2017
The Harry Gentle Resource Centre invites eligible Griffith University students to apply for the Harry Gentle Honours Scholarship. Applications close 4 February 2018. The Centre is developing a portal of research dedicated to the study of Australian history to the 1850s, with an initial focus on the territory that… Read More
July 21, 2017
HGRC visiting fellow Dr Anastasia Dukova gave a public talk at the Queensland State Archives on 14 July 2017. Anastasia spoke on the key aspects of town life and policing of today’s Brisbane in its transition years, from the arrival of the first immigrant ships in the Moreton Bay settlement… Read More
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