QSA seminar 18 Oct 2019, Peopling Place, Annemarie McLaren

QSA seminar 18 Oct 2019, Peopling Place, Annemarie McLaren

Peopling Place: Transcribing Sources for Brisbane’s Zion Hill Mission, presented by Annemarie McLaren.

Queensland State Archives with the Griffith University Harry Gentle Resource Centre are proud to present this event as part of the 2019 Visiting Fellows Seminar Series.

In this paper, Annemarie McLaren will explore some of the initial findings from transcribing pages of documents held in the J.D Lang papers at the Mitchell Library. In transcribing these documents, this project seeks to make the rich texture of the people and places more accessible, and so facilitate further research into this early period of Brisbane’s history.

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