The Harry Gentle Resource Centre invites eligible Griffith University students to apply for the Harry Gentle Honours Scholarship. Applications close 4 February 2018.

The Centre is developing a portal of research dedicated to the study of Australian history to the 1850s, with an initial focus on the territory that became Queensland. We are exploring innovative approaches in digital humanities to documenting, representing and interpreting that history.

This historical period represents an era of intercultural encounters. Our aim is to offer a portal of interactive resources, research publications, commentaries and research aids to facilitate access to published and unpublished information for the period up to 1859. We seek to document particularly the lives and experiences of those persons, groups and organisations that have not been the subject of historical investigation. We acknowledge the diverse people, groups and claims on country that made up the early colonial period, including convicts and free-born, Indigenous diplomats, resisters, interpreters and guides, shipwrecks and settlers, religious and military – the whole range of contributors to a new era.