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Event: Exhibition opening: Winagaylay Ngiyani Ganunga: We Will Remember Them

March 14, 2025

Queensland State Archive’s latest exhibition explores the often-overlooked contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service men and women. Weaving together military artefacts, found objects, textiles and archival materials, Winagaylay Ngiyani Ganunga questions the narratives of Australia’s military history by sharing the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples… Read More

News: ‘Other black peoples: rethinking race and settler colonialism in Australia’s northern tropic’ by Jan Richardson

March 8, 2025

PhD candidate Jan Richardson’s article, ‘Other black peoples: rethinking race and settler colonialism in Australia’s northern tropic’, has been published online as an open access article in the Settler Colonial Studies journal. It features biographical research on non-European convicts and their interactions with First Peoples at Moreton Bay. Seven… Read More

News: HGRC Visiting Fellowships

March 3, 2025

HGRC invites applications from innovative scholars in disciplines relevant to digital history or the creative arts to join us for a period as Visiting Fellow and contribute to the aims of the Harry Gentle Resource Centre. Two Fellowships are available for commencement on 1 July 2025. We offer shared office… Read More

News: Battlefront 1 by Frank Uhr

January 17, 2025

A compendium of the Frontier Wars in South East Queensland This is the first in a series of books dedicated to the historical frontier conflict for the control of prime grazing lands and water resources. In 1840 pastoral migration spread from Kilcoy to Maryborough and Bundaberg. From there it continued… Read More

News: Recording of launch of HGRC Dictionary of Biography

December 4, 2024

The Harry Gentle Resource Centre officially launched it’s Dictionary of Biography at the Queensland State Archives on Thursday 7 November 2024. The HGRC team provided insight into the purpose of the dictionary, the contribution of the  eResearch team in creating a unique product curated for research needs, the research methodology… Read More

News: Creative Arts Project: When You Call My Name

November 14, 2024

When You Call My Name  is a collaborative project honouring civilians who were brought from Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, and across Australia and New Zealand as ‘Japanese enemy aliens’ to be interned in Australia and New Zealand during WWII, and who died during internment. They include 26 people from Taiwan… Read More

News: Past Wrongs, Future Choices – Global Project

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

Past Event: My Grandmother is a Japanese war bride

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

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