November 14, 2024
About the project People of Japanese descent settled in countries across the Americas and the Pacific in the first decades of the twentieth century. Against the headwinds of racism, they built communities and sought opportunity. Then, in the crisis of the 1940s, their lives were shattered. In allied countries across… Read More
November 13, 2024
ABC Radio National, The History Listen presented by Kirsti Melville, Saturday 19 Oct 2024. Between 1952 and 1965, over 600 Japanese war brides crossed once enemy lines to make a home in Australia. Anti-Japanese sentiment was still palpable then, and they had little choice but to hide their Japanese-ness, and… Read More
October 23, 2024
We are delighted to announce that the official launch of the Harry Gentle Resource Centre’s Dictionary of Biography is taking placing on 7 November 2024 at Queensland State Archives at Runcorn. The function and content of the Dictionary – which includes First Peoples, convicts, soldiers, settlers and immigrants – will… Read More
October 16, 2024
Queensland author Lesley Synge recently launched her new book, Know Their Names, at the Royal Historical Society of Queensland’s Commissariat Store. Know Their Names concerns itself with the erasure of Aboriginal people from Australian history through examining the Queensland government’s Rewan Police Horse Breeding Station in the Central Highlands. Part… Read More
September 26, 2024
The 9th CHINA Inc Conference was recently hosted in Darwin by the… Read More
September 6, 2024
Melissa Lucashenko, Goorie (Aboriginal) author of Bundjalung and European heritage, has been awarded the $30,000 Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance for her novel Edenglassie. The historical work, set in Brisbane in two time periods — including the 1840s and 1850s when First Nations people outnumbered colonists… Read More
September 1, 2024
Griffith University and the Harry Gentle Resource Centre are proud to be hosting a two-day symposium to mark 200 years since the establishment of the Moreton Bay penal station in Meanjin/Brisbane in 1824. The symposium will take place at the Ship Inn, South Bank on Wednesday 11 and Thursday… Read More
August 12, 2024
‘In Convict Footsteps: A Bicentennial Event’, marking 200 years since the establishment of the Moreton Bay penal station, will retrace convict footsteps and summon convict voices at a special evening event at the Commissariat Store Museum. Two short visual presentations will be followed by convict music and dance, including a… Read More
August 9, 2024
Dr Margaret Shield, a past Visiting Fellow at the Harry Gentle Resource Centre, has transcribed the first Letterbook of Arthur Halloran (1853/1854), Commissioner of Crown Lands for Wide Bay and Burnett. It is now available online at the Queensland State Archives. To access please click here and… Read More
July 31, 2024
SPEAKER, PRESENTER AND CHAIR BIOGRAPHIES Dr Raymond Evans – Opening Address Dr Raymond Evans has been an Australian social historian for an unconscionable length of time. He commenced serious academic historical research in 1964 and, some sixty years later, is still at it. His publication record contains towards 250 separate… Read More
July 8, 2024
SPEAKER ABSTRACTS Opening Address: Dr Raymond Evans — renowned historian of frontier contact/conflict, penal stations, convicts, and punishment — will present ‘Convict Testimony and the Reconstruction of Penal Station Reputations’. Closing Address: Melissa Lucashenko – acclaimed Goorie (Aboriginal) author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her most recent novel ‘Edenglassie’ —… Read More
May 7, 2024
The Harry Gentle Resource Centre acknowledges, with deep sadness, the death of Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan AM FAHA on 30 April 2024. Lyndall was one of Australia’s most influential historians whose work cast new light on the historical experiences of Aboriginal people in colonial and post-colonial times. Her first book,… Read More
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