December 9, 2023
The Harry Gentle Resource Centre (HGRC) congratulates Visiting Fellow Dr Deborah Jordan on the publication of her book, Australian Women’s Justice: Settler Colonisation and the Queensland Vote. The eBook version is now available to read via the Griffith University Library. Deborah recently presented her HGRC Visiting Fellowship… Read More
November 11, 2023
We are pleased to announce that Jane Smith and Dr Nicole Davis have been awarded Harry Gentle Resource Centre Visiting Fellowships for 2024. Jane Smith is a librarian/archivist, author and editor. She is researching the life of Hannah Rigby, a seamstress from Liverpool who was transported as a convict to… Read More
October 5, 2023
Dr Deborah Jordan, Visiting Fellow with the Harry Gentle Resource Centre, is presenting her talk, ‘What We Want’: Queensland’s Colonial Feminisms, at the Queensland State Archives on Thursday 2 November at 11.00am. Dr Jordan is a Petherick Reader at the National Library of Australia, an internationally recognised Nettie and Vance… Read More
September 22, 2023
The Annerley-Stephens History Group is presenting a ‘Memories of Stephens’ conference on Saturday 21 October 2023, 9.00am – 4.30pm, at Our Lady’s College, Annerley. Papers will be presented on the history of the Stephens Shire, including Yeronga Aboriginal history, Aboriginal camp life in Moorooka, local railway and tram history, the… Read More
August 11, 2023
Griffith University Visiting Fellow Dr Henry Reese explores the life of Joseph Vos, his fascination with the phonograph and his 1895 trial in Brisbane. Captain Vos allegedly used a phonograph to induce several people from the island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands to board his labour-recruiting barque, the ‘William… Read More
July 27, 2023
How to bring into cultural memory Queensland’s suffrage story of the women’s campaign to win the vote, especially when there is not much documentation, is a question Dr Deborah Jordan grapples with. Conducting a walking tour with the Brisbane Labour History Association, she stopped alongside the statues of Sir Charles Lilley, who first introduced the… Read More
July 3, 2023
Join HGRC Visiting Fellow Dr Henry Reese at the Queensland State Archives on Thursday 20 July as he explores the life and actions of Captain Joseph Vos who allegedly used a phonograph to induce several people from the island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands to board his labour-recruiting… Read More
July 3, 2023
Follow the travels of former HGRC Visiting Fellow Dr Janis Hanley and current HGRC PhD candidate Jan Richardson as they explore the places, lived experience, genealogy, memories and stories of Chinese people in early Queensland on their Facebook page, Journeys into Queensland’s Chinese Past. Janis… Read More
July 3, 2023
The HGRC welcomes Dr Henry Reese. Henry’s project is titled ‘The trial of Joseph Vos: A blackbirding scandal in 1890s Queensland’. Henry proposes to research and produce a scholarly article and short podcast series based on the life and 1895 trial of Joseph Vos. In the mid-1890s, Captain Vos claimed… Read More
April 20, 2023
Following a groundswell of support from cultural institutions, historians, researchers and the general public lobbying the federal government to continue its funding of Trove, the government has pledged $33 million to save this valuable institution. Read more here. Read More
October 6, 2022
Griffith University Visiting Fellow Dr Dorothy (Dot) Wickham discusses her research into The Artemisia: the first immigrant ship of free settlers from England. The Artemisia’s maiden voyage arrived in Brisbane’s Moreton Bay area in mid-December 1848, with a passenger count of around 240 men, women, and children. In this talk, Dorothy… Read More
August 30, 2022
Dr Lee Butterworth, Research Fellow at HGRC, delivered a talk on the forthcoming Harry Gentle Resource Centre Dictionary of Biography at the recent Australasian Federation of Family History Associations (AFFHO) Congress 2022, held on Norfolk Island in August. Great interest was shown in the ‘Dictionary’, with a number of attendees… Read More
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