October 3, 2025
On 1 September 2025, Distinguished Professor Mark Finnane retired from his role as Director of the Harry Gentle Resource Centre (HGRC). Professor Finnane has significantly expanded the Centre’s scope since assuming the directorship from Dr Regina Ganter in 2018, leading the development of new digital initiatives, exciting collaborations with the… Read More
July 9, 2025
Battlefront 2: An account of the violent conflicts for the control of grazing lands and water in the Gulf Country ~ 1860 to 1905 In the hard stony ridges of the remote Selwyn Ranges outside Cloncurry, the lonely grave of a Native Police officer whose contempt for the Mittakoodi of… Read More
June 30, 2025
The HGRC is delighted to announce the appointment of its 2025/2026 Visiting Fellows. Congratulations to Belinda Daley, Trish FitzSimons and Robert Braiden. Belinda’s project is titled Warders, wives and children – The families of St Helena Penal Establishment. The project will identify families living as part of the warder’s community at… Read More
June 25, 2025
You are warmly invited to attend the launch of the 50th Anniversary Edition of the landmark publication: Exclusion, Exploitation, Extermination: Race Relations in Colonial Queensland by Raymond Evans, Kay Saunders, and Kathryn Cronin. Published by AndAlso Books. This important event celebrates a work that has shaped the understanding… Read More
May 21, 2025
A recording of our most recent QSA Talk, ‘Occupations for Ladies’ by Dr Nicole Davis, urban historian and Harry Gentle Research Centre Visiting Fellow, is now available to view online via the QSA’s YouTube channel. In December 1877,… Read More
April 28, 2025
Addressing recent critiques concerning the accuracy of Alice Duncan-Kemp’s accounts of Queensland’s Channel Country, Dr Ray Kerkhove’s recently published essay, “Alice Duncan-Kemp’s ‘Warrior Lodges’ and Kooroongoora: Structures of Resistance During Australia’s Frontier Wars”, evaluates Duncan-Kemp’s extraordinary statements concerning the structure of the Kooroongoora millenarian movement and what she called ‘warrior lodges’. Read More
April 28, 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
April 20, 2025
The Royal Historical Society of Queensland is convening a one-day Moreton Bay Settlement Conference at the Commissariat Store on Saturday 17 May 2025 to mark 200 years since the moving of the penal settlement from Redcliffe to Brisbane in May 1825. Speakers include Dr Ray Kerkhove on relationships and conflicts,… Read More
March 31, 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
March 19, 2025
Queensland State Archives, 435 Compton Rd. Runcorn QLD 4113, Thursday, 27 March, 11am-12pm AEST Join us for our next QSA Talk ‘Occupations for ladies’ with Dr Nicole Davis, an urban historian and the Harry Gentle Visiting Research Fellow, who will uncover the fascinating… Read More
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
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
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