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
February 27, 2025
Harry Gentle Resource Centre Visiting Fellow Jane Smith is launching her book, One Free Woman, at Avid Reader in West End, Brisbane on Saturday 29 March at 3.30pm. Jane will be joined in conversation by Nike Sulway. One Free Woman tells the story of Hannah Rigby, a poor Liverpool seamstress,… Read More
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
January 4, 2025
The date range for Queensland Births Deaths and Marriages has been updated. Births 1829 to 1925, Deaths 1829 to 1995, Marriages 1829 to 1950. Start a search here. Read More
December 4, 2024
The Harry Gentle Resource Centre officially launched its 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
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
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
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