BHG Events 1981-2019

Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 1981 28 March Public, Practical and Personal Workshop Bardon Professional John Laverty Local government in Brisbane: An historiographical view P1 Brisbane Development Centre Richard Allom The built environment as an historical resource P1 Tom Watson Schooling in urban context P1 John Wheeler Imagination versus documentation in urban evolution P1 Geoff Cossins Tracing the Brisbane water supply P1 Fred Annand SEQEB and the perpetual record P1 John Kerr The evolving railways of Brisbane P1 Colin Sheehan The mosaic of source material P1 John Cole Deciding research strategies for historical society: The P1 lifecourse approach Meredith Walker Delineating the character of the Queensland house P1

27 May Settling the Suburbs: New Seminar St Thomas’ Anglican Helen Gregory Early occupation of land in south-west Brisbane P1 Approaches to Community History Hall, Toowong Helen Bennett Studying a community concept: Late nineteenth century Toowong

27 July Brisbane’s Industrial Monuments Walk/drive Brisbane city: Windmill (Ray Whitmore) tour to Botanic Gardens

9 August Illustrated talk on City life in Historic Lecture UQ Forgan Smith Mark Girouard City life in historic Bath Bath Building

13 September Investigating Wolston House (1853) – Talk, tour Wolston House, Wacol Ray Oliver Investigating Wolston House (1853) a talk and tour about the house, property and owners

24 October The Historical Ups and Downs of Talk, walk/ Caxton Street Hall Rod Fisher The historical ups and downs of Petrie Terrace Petrie Terrace drive tour (Rod Fisher) (The ups and downs of Petrie-Terrace: Walk/drive heritage T1 tour)

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 1982 13 March AGM & A Cultural Perspective AGM, organ St Francis’ College, Val Vallis Putting poets in their places: A personal perspective P2 recital, Milton Bettina Macaulay ‘A humble beginning’ for Queensland’s National Art Gallery P3 seminar, venue tour Dianne Byrne Decorative arts in early Brisbane P3 Julie Brown The photograph as artefact P2 (Robert Riddel) (Robin Dods and Old Bishopsbourne chapel – venue tour) 28 April Historic Brisbane and Its Early Artists Seminar Brisbane Community Susanna Evans Historic Brisbane and its early artists Arts Centre

24 June Father Tom Boland on James Duhig Seminar College Hall, St Joseph’s Tom Boland James Duhig: Leadership in the Queensland community P6 College, Gregory Terrace

8 August Look, Listen and Walk Talk, walking QIT School of Business Terry Conway Brisbane central business district tour Studies

21 October Family History for the Brisbane Seminar St Thomas’ Anglican Jennifer Harrison Family history and its relation to local history P2 Historian Hall, Toowong

21 November Sport History Review: The History Seminar and UQ Central Library Ian Jobling Sport and local history: A computerized information and P2 and Sources of Australian Sport high tea retrieval system Spencer Routh Themes and questions for historians of sport in Brisbane P2 1983 26 March AGM & In Search of the Brisbane AGM, QIT, Old Government Don Watson An overview of the Brisbane house P3 House seminar, House Janet Hogan The elite Brisbane house P3 OGH tour Richard Allom The small Brisbane house P3 Richard Stringer Ornamentation Bal Saini The Brisbane house in environmental context P3 Ray Sumner The Brisbane house in historical context P3 Rod Fisher In search of the Brisbane house P3 (Ray Oliver) (Guided tour of Old Government House) 22 May The Brisbane River Seminar Newstead House Gerald Sargent A geologic history of the Brisbane River P3 Phil Heywood Future use of the Brisbane River P3 2 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 5 June The Ups and Downs of Petrie Terrace Talk, walk/ Caxton Street Hall Rod Fisher The historical ups and downs of Petrie-Terrace (T1) drive tour 23 June Squatter, Selector, Speculator Seminar Commissariat Stores Helen Gregory Squatter, selector, speculator (c. RHSQ) 6 August Elements of Early Brisbane Seminar ‘Miegunyah’, Newstead Ross Johnston The difficult birth of Brisbane as an urban centre Helen Gregory South-west Brisbane in the 1840s and 1850s P6 Rod Fisher All creatures great and small: Locating the people of P2 Brisbane in time and place 22 October Archives for Brisbane History: Seminar Bardon Professional Paul Wilson State Archives Policies, problems and possibilities Development Centre John Cole Brisbane’s civic records: Factors affecting an historical P2 regarding acquisition, conservation policy and access John Stafford Historical records at the Titles Office P2 Les Isdale Historical resource materials of the Department of Mapping P2 and Surveying, Queensland Mamie O’Keeffe Research materials, procedures and access at the John Oxley P2 Library Margaret Research collections, policies and access at the Fryer Library P2 O’Hagan 20 November History on the River Boat cruise City to river mouth (Helen Gregory) (Historical commentary)

1984 10 March AGM & Ipswich Day Seminar, Ipswich Education Dushen Salecich Brisbane, Ipswich or Cleveland: The capital port question at P6 AGM, bus Centre, ‘Claremont’ Moreton Bay 1842-1859 tour Ray Whitmore Ipswich – the development of an industrial town Robyn Buchanan The Ipswich building heritage – an historical and architectural survey Bruce Buchanan ‘Claremont’ history and conservation. (Claremont tour) (Ray Whitmore, (Heritage tour by bus to major historical sites and buildings Bruce Buchanan) in the Ipswich area) 15 April The Ups and Downs of Petrie Terrace Talk, walk/ Caxton Street Hall Rod Fisher The historical ups and downs of Petrie-Terrace (T1) drive tour

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 24 May Research in Progress Session Discussion, BCAE Kelvin Grove Gerry Langevad The paper archaeology of early contact history talk

24 June Brisbane’s Early Water Supply: Seminar, Theosophical Society John Laverty The politics of Brisbane’s first waterworks P6 Politics and Technology inspection of Auditorium, Wickham Geoff Cossins Technical aspects of building Enoggera dam reservoirs Terrace 18 July Research in Progress Session Workshop BCAE Kelvin Grove Rod Gerber Map making for historians

19 August Colonial Botany in Queensland Seminar Queensland Institute of Ross Mackinnon The old botanic gardens of Brisbane: An historical survey P6 Technology 1828-1984 Ray Sumner Amalie Dietrich and Queensland botany P6 16 September Research in Progress Session Talk 63 Wellington Street, Rod Fisher On reconstructing an inner suburban community Petrie Terrace 7 October Colonial Medicine Seminar Wesley Hospital Helen Gregory Introduction : The 1890s – a creative decade P3 John Thearle Saving the children: Brisbane medical triumphs of the 1890s P3 Lorraine Calazar When the plague came to Queensland P3 Janet Hogan ‘Moorlands’ and the Mayne family P3

25 November Brisbane’s Historic Bridges Bus tour Captain Burke Park, (Colin O’Connor) (Tour and history of Brisbane bridges) Kangaroo Point

1985 2 March AGM & Aboriginal Culture and AGM, UQ, Mining and J. Hall A short prehistory of the Moreton region P5 European Contact in the Brisbane seminar Metallurgy Building Peter Lauer Mi-an-jin: A re-creation of Aboriginal lifeways on the P5 Region Brisbane River Thom Blake Excluded, exhibited, exploited: Aborigines in Brisbane P5 1897-1910 Denis Cryle ‘Snakes in the grass’: The press and race relations at P5 Moreton Bay 1846-47 Raymond Evans ‘Wanton outrage’: Police and Aborigines at Breakfast Creek P5 Ray Sumner The earliest photographs of Queensland Aborigines? Amalie P5 Dietrich’s collection for Museum Godeffroy 1863-72

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 20 April Southbank Heritage Day Seminar, Old South Brisbane Rod Fisher ‘O-ver’ there: Early days on Brisbane’s Southbank P6, S8 walks, bus Town Hall, Ruth Kerr John Moffat: A South Brisbane entrepreneur in the late P6 tour Cumbooquepa 1860s John Laverty South Brisbane: The making of a city P8 Dianne Byrne The immigrants Janet Hogan South Brisbane buildings Phil Heywood, Future uses of Brisbane’s Southbank P6 Tom Randall (Rod Fisher) (A tour of historic South Brisbane: Civic precinct heritage T2 walk) (Bill Edwards) (A tour of historic South Brisbane: Southbank heritage drive) T3

2 June Winterfest – Bethania/Beenleigh Seminar, Bethania Lutheran Stephen Nuske Ritual and custom in the Lutheran Tradition at Bethania P6 displays Church, Beenleigh (Les Morland) (Bethania Lutheran Church graveyard) (c.Beenleigh Historical Village DHS)

25 July Through a Glass Darkly: Early Seminar Commissariat Stores Rod Fisher Aspects of early photography in the Moreton Bay region P3, S8 Photographs of Moreton Bay before (c. RHSQ) 1860 15 September Brisbane at War: The Impact of War Seminar, Victoria Barracks, Petrie Raymond Evans The battles of Brisbane: The conscription struggle 1916-17 P4 in the 20th Century venue tour Terrace Libby Connors ‘The memory of the Anzacs...’: Implications of World War I P4 for Queensland schooling to 1939 Helen Taylor ‘Rifles or running shoes – which is it to be?’ Brisbane 1942 P4 Kay Saunders Racial conflict in Brisbane in World War II: The imposition P4 of patterns of segregation upon Black American servicemen Judith McKay Putting the Digger on a pedestal: Queensland commemorates P4 the Great War

27 November Christmas in Colonial Style Seminar, Brisbane School of Arts, Rod Fisher Brisbane during the festive season: A dialogue with the P6 concert Ann Street colonial dead

1986 1 March AGM & The Bicentenary in Brisbane AGM, Commissariat Stores Laurie Strange Brisbane in the Queensland context seminar Helen Gregory The bicentenary in Brisbane city

5 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 19 April Southbank Heritage Seminar, Old South Brisbane Jane Williamson- South Brisbane, the forgotten city P6 walks, bus Town Hall Fien tour, displays Jennifer Brisbane theatre and the Southbank P6 Radbourne Heather Jones The Princess Theatre: From then to TN P6 21 June Ethnic Day: Towards a Multicultural Seminar ‘Yungaba’, Kangaroo Olga Some political characteristics of Russians in Brisbane P5 Society Point Doubrobskaya Denis Comonos Early Greek eating places in Brisbane1900-20 P5 John Moses German immigration to Queensland 1838-1981 P5 Fiorenza Jones A preview of the Italian presence in Queensland P5 Rosa MacGinley Irish immigration and settlement in Queensland: An P5 overview Con Castan Ethnic radio in Brisbane P5 10 August Child Health in Colonial Brisbane Seminar Caxton Street Hall, Petrie Helen Gregory Infant deaths in early Brisbane: Problems in probing the 1860s Terrace causes 18 October Kilcoy Day: The Squatters in Town Seminar, bus Kilcoy Homestead Gerry Langevad The squatters of Kilcoy and district P6 and Abroad tour Kevin Carmody Early squatters in the Moreton Bay environment P6 John Mackenzie- Evan Mackenzie of Kilcoy and the foundation of Brisbane P6 Smith 1841-45 Rod Fisher David Cannon McConnel’s second ‘bump of hope’: Bulimba P6, S8 House and farm 1849-53 (John Mackenzie- (Caboolture to Kilcoy Heritage Drive) T4 Smith)

21 December Promenade at the Princess Talks, show, Princess Theatre, South Jennifer Brisbane theatre P6 displays Brisbane Radbourne Rod Wissler The Princess Theatre

1987 28 February AGM & Museum Afternoon AGM, Queensland Museum Patricia Mather The Queensland Museum – the first 125 years seminar, museum tour

4 April Riverside Walk Walk tour Toowong, Regatta Hotel (Rod Fisher, John (From town to Toowong: Riverpath heritage tour) T5 Mackenzie-Smith) 6 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 27, 29 June Looking at Local History Archives Seminar UQ Mining and Pat Ramsay The Anglican Archives P7 and Approaches (c. JOL, MA Metallurgy Ros McCormack Church and related records in the John Oxley Library P7 local history Queensland Museum Brian Randall Westpac Banking Corporation archives: A case-study of P7 program) bank records Libby Connors Local history, social history and the law: Early criminal P7 records in Queensland Paul Sayer Death in Queensland: The administration of deceased estates P7 Les Isdale Historical resources of the Department of Geographic P7 Information Colin Sheehan The John Oxley Library: Historical sources in new premises P7 Lee McGregor Local history sources at Queensland State Archives P7 Rod Fisher Directories to people, places and patterns in Queensland P7 since 1868 John Kerr Queensland Railways: A journey round the resources P7 Ray Whitmore Mining archives in Queensland P7 Dan Robinson The Queensland Museum for local historians P7 22 August Aspects of Pre-separation Brisbane Seminar Newstead House Ray Whitmore The first Sydney-Brisbane steamship service 1841-45 P6 John Mackenzie- The foundation of Kangaroo Point 1843-46 P6 Smith Rod Fisher The German presence in early Brisbane (see The alien P5, S8 presence in early Brisbane 1840-60: A preliminary survey)

11 October Exploring Toohey Forest and Seminar, Griffith University Alan Hill, Bill The Toohey family: Irish catholicism and land speculation in P6 Environs walk Metcalf early Brisbane

29 November Christmas Cruise to Wolston House Boat trip, ‘Mirimar’ - city to Stephen Murray, Dr Stephen Simpson and Wolston House house tour Wacol, Wolston House John Slaughter

1988 27 February AGM & Theosophical Society AGM, Theosophical Society, Fiona Gardiner Callender House, 355 Wickham Terrace P10 Building seminar, Wickham Terrace Elizabeth Marks A Wickham Terrace household before the first world war P10 venue tour Peter Marquis- Restoration of Callender House Kyle

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 17 March An Artist’s Vision, 1835-1939 Private BCC Art Gallery, Pam Whitlock Glimpses of Brisbane history in art as depicted in the viewing of Brisbane City Hall Brisbane City Council Art Gallery exhibition, Dianne Byrne The background and significance of ‘An Artist’s Vision, talks 1835-1939’

17 and 24 Brisbane 1888 Heritage Tour Bus tour Buildings and sites in (Rod Fisher) (Brisbane 1888 Heritage Tour) T6 April Brisbane’s historical heart

19 April Story Bridge Festival Seminar Main Roads Building, Adam Krosch, The Story Bridge: Traffic and planning P10 (c. Institution Spring Hill Adam Pekol of Engineers) Libby Connors The Story Bridge: Social history P10 Albert Contessa The Story Bridge: Design and construction P10 Ros McCormack John Oxley Library and Story Bridge records

June 11 1888 Railway Tour to Caboolture and Train tour Roma Street – (Rod Fisher) (Photocopied articles) Cleveland (c. Aust. Caboolture - Cleveland (ARHS) (Notes on North Coast and Cleveland lines) R’way HS.)

10 August Brisbane in 1888 – the Capital City Public lecture UQ, Abel Smith Theatre Graeme Davison ‘New, brawny, uneven and half-finished’: Brisbane among P8 Context (c. UQ Hist) the colonial capitals in 1888

17 September Brisbane in 1888 Seminar, QUT, Kindler Theatre Jennifer Harrison Queen Street, North Brisbane P8 piano recital Denis Cryle ‘A temple of industry': The Courier Building of 1887 P8 John Laverty The making of a city: South Brisbane Municipal Council P8 1859-1902 Helen Woodcock Immigrant health and reception facilities, Brisbane 1888 P8 Ray Sumner Science in Brisbane 1888 P8 Helen Gregory Nurse training comes to town P8 Ian Jobling Sport in 1888: An historical perspective P8 Margaret ‘Cheerily doth he push northward, the black coat and shining P8 Maynard topper of civilization’: Dress and the urban experience Fiona Gardiner Building a house in 1888 P8 Don Watson Foundations: The Queensland Institute of Architects P8 Raymond Evans Night of broken glass: The anatomy of an anti-Chinese riot P8 Rod Fisher Old Frogs Hollow: Devoid of interest, or a den of iniquity? P8, S8

8 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 30 October Brisbane Authors’ Afternoon Informal St Andrew’s, Del Deed Brisbane deaths talks, Indooroopilly Rod Fisher, Steve Petrie Terrace, Brisbane 1858-1988: Its ups and downs discussion Woolcock Reba Gostand Brisbane Expo-sed: A novel approach Helen Gregory A tradition of care: A history of nursing at Royal Brisbane Hospital Jennifer Harrison Guide to the microform collection of the State Library of Queensland, including the John Oxley Library Margaret Jenner Yungaba: A century of service to the community John Kerr Brunswick steel, Bowen Hills and beyond: The railways of the northern suburbs of Brisbane Judith McKay Brisbane sculpture guide: A walk around public sculpture in the city

3 December BHG Finale Party, venue Swift’s Shop-house, tour Petrie Terrace

1989 4 March AGM & History of Libraries in AGM, State Library of Tonia Walker A history of public library facilities in Australia Queensland seminar, Queensland Ros McCormack The history of the Queensland State Library P10 venue tour for Colin Sheehan

16 April Petrie Terrace Walk Talk, walk/ Baroona Special School, (Rod Fisher) (The ups and downs of Petrie-Terrace: Walk/drive heritage T1 2nd drive tour Petrie Terrace tour) ed.

24, 25 June Local History Weekend: The How Seminar Toombul Shire Hall Pat Fairhall How can local history societies contribute to the researching and Why of Local History and writing of history? Patsy Cloake An urban history case study: Involving the community in P9 local history projects Angela Collyer Historical records in the local community: Oscar Badke and P9 the city of Troy Ian Johnson Program for cataloguing historical collections and archives Robert Longhurst Photographs as historical sources P9 Ros McCormack You too have archives P9 Dan Robinson Presentation and preservation of artefacts P9

9 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 24, 25 June Local History Weekend: Oral History Seminar State Library of Sue Pechey Problems of collecting and using oral source material (cont) Seminar Queensland Roberta Bonnin Oral history and local history P9 Jennifer Harrison Oral history and family history P9 Ross Johnston Oral history exposed P9 Helen Fridemanis Oral history as a method of contemporary research P9 Thom Blake Voices on the dark side of the moon: Oral research and P9 Aboriginal informants

26 August ‘Queensland’s Inferno’: The Island of Talks, boat Manly, ‘Cat o’Nine Libby Connors Punishment in pre-separation Queensland St Helena trip, tour Tails’, St Helena Island Rod Fisher (Extracts from Yvonne Reynolds’ work on St Helena) (Yvonne Reynolds) 14 October Mining in Brisbane – an Historical Seminar, tour UQ Mine, Indooroopilly Laurie Hutton Geological development of the Brisbane region P10 Perspective David Trezise Rock and stone materials of the Brisbane region P10 John Melempre, The sand and gravel industry in the Brisbane region P10 per Nigel Palethorpe Ray Whitmore Coal in the Brisbane region P10 David Trezise Gold mining in the Brisbane region P10 David Rowlands Silver and lead mining at Finney’s Hill, Indooroopilly P10

2 December Christmas Crescendo Concert Brisbane Grammar (Colin Brumby, School Great Hall Jenny Dawson)

1990 24 February AGM & Law Courts Afternoon AGM, Banco Court, Supreme Bruce McPherson Notable early Queensland judges seminar Court Building 24 March Oral history workshop Workshop Gordon Greenwood (Instructors: Building, UQ Roberta Bonnin, Sue Pechey)

21 April Peel Island Boat trip, Manly, ‘Cat o’Nine Peter Ludlow History of the lazaret talks, tour Tails’, Peel Island John Thearle Leprosy

10 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 23 June Place Names Day Seminar. bus Sunmap Centre, Jennifer Harrison What’s in a placename? P9 tour Woolloongabba Elizabeth Dann Aboriginal placenames in Brisbane: Misplaced, P9 mispronounced and misunderstood Denis Cleary Placenames of the Nundah district P9 Helen Gregory Toowong, or should it be Banerba, or even West Milton? P9 Bill Metcalf Process in place naming south-east Brisbane P9 Rod Fisher Plotting the placenames of Petrie-Terrace P9 Paul Wilson Placenames and historical maps P9 (Jennifer Harrison, (Eastern Suburbs Placenames Drive) T7 Rod Fisher) 26 August Schooling in Nineteenth Century Seminar Gehrmann Theatre, Jane Williamson- Margaret Berry Brisbane (c. HQES) Brisbane Girls Grammar Fien School Tom Watson Primary children in the Normal School Alan Savige Neglected children and reform schools Greg Logan The pupil-teacher system Eddie Clark Technical apprentices at the Brisbane Technical College Pam Barnett, Sue Brisbane Grammar School and Brisbane Girls Grammar Pechey School 14 October Sandgate Saunter and Shorncliffe Walk/drive Shorncliffe State School John Mackenzie- Sandgate before the railway P14 Shuffle tour Smith (Barry Shaw) (The Sandgate/Shorncliffe Heritage Tour) T8

30 November A Colonial Christmas and BHG 10th Party, enter- Queen Alexandra Home, (Prickly Pair, Birthday Celebration tainment, Coorparoo Villanova Players) slide show Rod Fisher, Helen BHG’s first ten years Gregory

1991 23 February AGM & Parliament: History and AGM, Legislative Council Pat Comben Government policy on the built heritage Heritage seminar Chamber, Old Parliament Lyn Armstrong ‘A somewhat rash experiment’: Queensland Parliament as a P15 House microcosm of society Ian Charlton The renovation of Parliament House P15

11 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 6 April Coorparoo Canter Seminar, bus Xavier Hospital for Patricia Ryan The King Family and ‘Erica’, Coorparoo P14 tour Children, Coorparoo John Laverty Coorparoo: The development of a shire P14 Bill Kitson Coorparoo: Surveys and surveyors Jim Bruce Landmarks of the Coorparoo district P14 Rick Jeffreys Camp Hill Ward Heritage Committee Don Nicklin A family view of the Nicklins of Coorparoo P14 Gary Ford The tramways and Coorparoo P14 Pat Reuschle Going to the flicks around Coorparoo P14 (Judy Rechner) (The Old Coorparoo Shire: A Heritage Drive Tour) T9

22 June Cemeteries: Deadly Serious Sources Seminar, tour Nudgee College, Nudgee Helen Gregory Introducing Nudgee: Suburb, institutions and cemetery P13 Cemetery Jennifer Harrison Cemeteries: Footprints in stone P13 Rod Fisher That controversial cemetery: The North Brisbane burial P13, S8 grounds 1843-75 and beyond Judith McKay Toowong and some heroes P13 David Larkin Irish graves at Nudgee cemetery: P13 Some notable Irish in Nudgee cemetery Edith Ives Ives monumental works at Lutwyche 1924-80 P13 John Clements Tantalizing tombstones P13 Lori Harlow They were left behind: Some northern insights P13

4 August Brisbane River Valley Bus tour Fairney Lawn, Wivenhoe (John Mackenzie- Brisbane River Valley Heritage Tour T10 Sesquicentenary Bus Tour Dam, Esk, ‘Bellevue’, Smith) ‘Caboonbah’, ‘Cressbrook’

22 August Joint BHG/RHSQ Meeting Talks Commissariat Stores John Mackenzie- Rev. John Gregor: Like a lamb to the slaughter S5 Smith Tom Watson Archbishop Glennie 19 October Aboriginal and Ethnic History Day Seminar Queensland Museum Raymond Evans The Mogwi take Mi-an-jin: Race relations and the Moreton P11 Bay penal settlement 1824-42 Rod Fisher From depredation to degradation: The Aboriginal experience P11, S8 at Moreton Bay 1842-60 John Mackenzie- The Kilcoy poisonings: The official factor 1841-43 P11 Smith 12 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 19 October Libby Connors The theatre of justice: Race relations and capital punishment P11 (cont.) at Moreton Bay 1841-1859 Richard Robbins Aboriginal attitudes to museum displays of cultural artefacts Michael Aird (Exhibition of 19th and early 20th century studio photographs of Aboriginal people) Ross Johnston The Welsh in Queensland P12 Don Dignan Italian immigrants of the 1870s P12 John Trone The Jewish enclave in Brisbane P12 Kay Saunders Nazis abroad? Internment in Brisbane in the second world P12 war

30 November Christmas Ceilidh Party, enter- Queen Alexandra Home, tainment Coorparoo 1992 29 February AGM & The City Hall AGM, Sherwood Room, City John Laverty A history of Brisbane’s City Hall P15 seminar, tour Hall Ron Baker The renovation of the City Hall P15 Maureen Hayes The role of the City Hall in the city Peter Newell Brisbane City Hall: History and heritage P15

11 March BHG Book Launch Book launch, Mary Ryan bookshop, Walter Campbell Launch of John Mackenzie-Smith’s Brisbane’s forgotten S1 refreshments Paddington founder: Sir Evan Mackenzie of Kilcoy 1816-1883

3 May Heritage Week ‘Forceful’ River Boat trip Queensland Maritime (Ray Whitmore, (Commentary) Cruise (c. NTQ) Museum wharf, John Laverty, downriver in ‘S.S. Judith Trevan- Forceful’ Hawke) 27 June 150 Years Ago: Profiles of Brisbane Seminar Commissariat Store Colin Sheehan The fifty-mile limit P16 in 1842 Rod Fisher Brisbane Town in 1842 P16, S8 Bill Kitson The first surveyors Jennifer Harrison Wickham’s colonists [Simpson’s settlers] P16 Margaret Outridge The missionaries of the German Station 1838-1850 P23 Mark Gosling Thomas Dowse: Brisbane’s Samuel Pepys P16 John Mackenzie- Andrew Petrie: Father of Brisbane P16 Smith 13 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 27 June (cont.) Helen Gregory John Williams: Merchant adventurer P16 Murdoch Wales Shepherds on the Stanley P16 Val Donovan Down rode the squatters P16

23 August In Fewings’ Footsteps: A Riverside Talk, slide Toowong Library, Helen Gregory Fewings’ Toowong Walk in Old Toowong lecture, walk Coronation Drive Joe Goodall Toowong: Past and present (slide show) tour, photo display (Helen Gregory) (Tour notes) (c. JOL) 24 October Science Technology and Society Seminar Queensland Museum Marion Diamond 19th century science and technology Malcolm Thomis Technology and social change Ray Whitmore The arrival of a profession P20 Geoff Crane Meteorological forecasting and climate history Margaret Roberts Making the plants at home: The Acclimatisation Society Peter Lloyd Getting the message across: The dissemination of scientific knowledge John Thearle Popping pills, soothing lotions and topping potions Don Leckie Testing times: Pure food and drugs Bill Oliver Cleansing waters: The battle for the Enoggera catchment P201 pinetrees Brian Crozier The Queensland Museum Brian Crozier Exhibiting technology and its social role Pat Mather The role of the museum

27 November Victorian Christmas Soirée Commentary, United Service Institute, entertainment, Victoria Barracks supper 1993 20 February AGM & Water, Water Everywhere AGM, Royal Geographic Iltud Lovelock Social consequences of the 1974 flood: There’s no feeling of seminar, tour Society, Brookes Street, being alive without a sense of identity Mt Crosby waterworks Ron Gordon Flooding and roads Bill Oliver Floods in Brisbane: 1893 and on P20 Ray Whitmore The 1893 floods at Mount Crosby waterworks P20 14 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 17 April Brisbane at Leisure in the 1890s Seminar, Sunshine Welfare and Beth Wilson Gardens and houses early film Remedial Association, Laurel Garlick Brisbane’s Water Music, 1893 show College Road, Spring Hill Ian Jobling Cricket and cycling in the 1890s P17 Margaret Proliferating habits: Leisure and clothing in the 1890s P17 Maynard Pam Barnett Painters and patrons: Art in Brisbane 1890-1906 P17 Shirley Books and reading in the 1890s P17 McCorkindale John Kerr Train excursions for the masses in the 1890s P17 Barry Shaw Sandgate in the 1890s: Attractions and minor irritations P17 Robert Longhurst Decline and temporary fall from favour P17 Patricia Joynes The Brisbane River: A source of recreation 1890-1900 P17 Kathleen Miller Church activities (Kevin Franzi) (Original moving films and magic lantern show)

27 June Bald Hills Heritage Tour Talks, bus St Paul’s School, Bald Barry Shaw Bald Hills: From pioneers to pastoralists P14 tour Hills Stafford Shepherd The Bald Hills cemetery (Barry Shaw) (Bald Hills Heritage Tour) T13

7 August Northern Suburbs Heritage Seminar Talks, tour St Andrew’s Anglican Beres McCallum Early settlement and history of Windsor and Tour Church, Lutwyche Paul Sayer A trusted officer and worthy gentleman: Judge Alfred P14 Lutwyche of Kedron Brian McKeering St Andrew’s Church Maureen Lillie ‘Oakwal’, ‘Delaware’, ‘Kirkston’ and ‘Kedron Lodge’ Tom Boland The Duhig family in Albion Mary Sellen Reaching out in love and mercy: Sisters of Mercy in Brisbane Mervyn Royle The development of Kedron David Teague Kedron park racecourse (Mervyn Royle) (Northern Suburbs Heritage Tour) T14

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 17 October Popular culture from the 1940s Seminar, St Joachim’s Hall, Raymond Evans ‘Crazy News’: Rock ’n’ roll in Brisbane and Bill Haley’s P17 films Holland Park ‘Big Show’, 1956-57 Jennifer Harrison Popular culture: Radio to television in the 1950s P17 Mavis Donovan Dancing at the old Cremorne Sue Ward Brisbane by night: Alfresco 1900-1914 P17 Louise Denoon Photographing suburbia in the 1950s Helen Bennett ‘Casablanca’ in context Sel Colquhoun Films: Barney Bear, Our Gang, Bugs Bunny, ‘Casablanca’

27 November Victorian Christmas Soirée Talks, bush Pullenvale Hall Bettina Macauley Brisbane as seen by artists ballads, Robyn Buchanan Athenians v Thebans: Brisbane by Ipswich journalists P16 dinner Jane Meadows Brisbane through the lens Tim Moroney Brisbane on the visitors’ circuit 1870s-1940s P17

1994 26 February AGM & Brisbane and Money: AGM, Westpac Building, Post Rod Fisher Bankruptcy in early Brisbane Bankrupts, Bounders and Bankers seminar, Office Square Colin Sheehan Bank crashes in the 1890s walking tour Paul Sayer The legislation in three acts Jennifer Harrison The 1890s bankrupts: Case studies Helen Bennett Brisbane’s Wall Street (Helen Bennett) (Brisbane’s Wall Street [Handout])

16 April Brisbane at Work: Toil a Seminar Transport Heritage Ray Whitmore Setting the scene: Past toilers and their trades nd Trouble Centre, St Paul’s Terrace Mervyn Royle, The foundries of Brisbane Denis Martin, Len Hogan Tom Watson, Sweating it out Helen Hamley Greg Hallam Building the railways Pam Young Women united Brian Crozier Nine to five Ian Waples The road we travelled

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 4 June Restored? Renovated? Ruined? Lectures, Old Government House Robert Longhurst Setting the scene for the CBD: A slide show slide show, Marcus Heritage conservation: Putting the day in context panel Richardson discussion, tours of venue Jon Womersley The philosophy of the Cultural Heritage Branch and Botanical Paul Malone Facades and facadism Gardens Richard Allom The role of the architect in conservation Geoff Whalan A developer’s view Rod Fisher A historian’s view Leon Misfeld A conservationist’s view Jinx Miles Conservation of Old Government House and tour (Beth Wilson) (Heritage tour of the Old Botanical Gardens)

27 August Ashgrove Local History Day Seminar, bus Uniting Church Thom Blake Ashgrove: A historical overview tour Memorial Hall, West John Laverty Local government in Ashgrove Ashgrove Helen Bennett The Stewarts of ‘Glen Lyon’ P21 Paul Sayer Two Ashgrove Worthies: CF Plant and JL Woolcock P21part Judy Rechner Glen Lyon Drive Meta Truscott The contribution of the religious orders Marie The Ashgrove State School McCollough Janet Hogan Woodlands (formerly Clarke’s Farm) John Mackenzie- Growing up in Ashgrove Smith P21 (Judy Rechner) (Glen Lyon Drive [handout])

15-16 October Digging Down in Dunwich: Its Boat trip, Dunwich Public Hall Joe Goodall Dunwich history in a nutshell Changing Role seminar, tour Tiiti Gill (per Dunwich 1946-94 Rod Fisher), Estelle Bertosi, Rose Borey (per Luis Pinsack) Joe Goodall ‘Nothing beyond myself and Mr. Watkins’: James Hamilton P19 and the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum 1865-85

17 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 15-16 October Jonathon The lepers of Stradbroke Island P19 (cont.) Prangnell Nonie Malone Layers on the landscape: Dunwich Benevolent Asylum Meredith Goodall Paradise postponed: The quarantine of the ‘Young Australia’ 1865 John Mackenzie- Dunwich: Convicts, Passionists and shattered hopes P19 Smith 20 November Faiths and Forebears: 19th Century Tours, talks, Brisbane Synagogue, St Morris Ochert The Brisbane Hebrew congregation and its historic synagogue P22 Churches Xmas tea John’s Cathedral, All Jennifer Harrison The cathedral that never was P22 Saints’ Hall Peter Dare St John’s Cathedral Leslie Ball The establishment of identity of the Baptist denomination in P22 Queensland in the nineteenth century Russell Cowie From Creek Street to Leichhardt Street: The growth of the Congregation at St Paul’s (Paul Sayer, (Brisbane City Churches Heritage Tour) T15 Margaret Jenner, Pam Cory)

1995 25 February AGM & Building on the Level: an AGM, Masonic Centre, Ann Mervyn Royle Establishment and role of Masonic institutions in 19th historic look at Freemasonry in seminar, tour Street century Brisbane Brisbane Merle Forsyth History, nature and function of the Order of the Eastern Star in Brisbane Ian Maddox Ann Street Masonic Centre: Historical significance Frank Holmes Ann Street Masonic Centre: Fabric and construction

8 April Behind Bars at Boggo Talk, tour Boggo Road Gaol Fiona Gardiner 18th and 19th century English and Australian gaols and No 2 Division, Boggo Road 27 May Is history repeating itself? Seminar, Parliament House Ken Wiltshire The constitutional conventions of the 1890s and the role of panel Annexe Sir Samuel Griffith discussion Peter Beattie Queensland Parliament in the 1890s (c Ross Fitzgerald The Labour movement in the 1890s Constitutional Centenary Kay Saunders Issues concerning women in the 1890s Foundation) Rod Kirkpatrick The role of the media in the 1890s 18 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 8 July Accessing Archives Seminar Women’s College, UQ Annabel Lloyd Getting the most out of Brisbane City Council Shauna Hicks Queensland State Archives: An update on resources John Pye Accessing recorded Commonwealth history Del Cuddihy Queensland Railways: Rules, regulations and bylaws Kathy Frankland A religious experience: Using records of the Uniting Church David Parker Accessing Baptist Archives in Queensland Pam Barnett Brisbane Grammar School as a microcosm of colonial history Maureen Lillie National Trust of Queensland Brian Randall Accessing the Manuscript Collection of the John Oxley Library: Theory and reality

26 August Stafford and Wilston-Grange Heritage Talks, bus St Clement’s Church John Mackenzie- Stafford ‘Before the town came out’ P22 Tour tour Hall, Stafford Smith Barry Shaw Wilston and Grange: Historical overview P22 Rosemary Land use in Stafford Matthew Mervyn Royle Gibson’s Tannery Rosemary Keong’s slaughterhouses Matthew Judy Tyler, Jane Wilston State School Brown Rev. W O’Shea St Colomba’s Church: The foundation years Frank Box Kedron Brook area: Prehistory to the present (Barry Shaw) (Stafford and Wilston-Grange heritage tour ) T16

7 October People in Power Seminar City Council Central John Laverty William Alfred Jolly: A slave to duty P15 Library Theatrette Manfred Cross Alfred James Jones: Labor’s first lord mayor P15 John Laverty John Beals Chandler: The little man at City Hall P15 Doug Tucker J C Slaughter: Brisbane’s quintessential town clerk P15

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 2 December The Couth Historian’s Pub Tour Talks, bus Story Bridge Hotel Helen Bennett Gailey’s pretty pubs tour, Xmas Rod Fisher Three Petrie Terrace pubs lunch Jan Deery The Story Bridge Hotel Joe Goodall English licensed houses (Barry Shaw) (A Brisbane Historical Pub Tour) T17 1996 20 February AGM & Newstead Sesquicentenary AGM, Newstead House David Gibson I saw three ships seminar Jan Glasscock Rags to riches: George Harris at Newstead Jane Lennon Some futures for Newstead House 20 April Turning on the Tap: Brisbane’s Early Seminar, tour RSL Club, The Gap John Laverty The politics of Brisbane’s first water supply P20 Waterworks of Enoggera Ray Whitmore Joseph Brady and the construction of Enoggera Dam and Gold Creek Dams Geoff Cossins The building of the Gold Creek Dam David Morgans Ecology of the Enoggera/Gold Creek catchment area (slide show)

23 June ‘This Important river’: Maritime Seminar, Customs House Colin Sheehan Too good a site for a gaol History venue tour Win Davenport An overview of the growth of the Port of Brisbane since first settlement Robert Isdale Two ha’pennies for the ferryman Ray Whitmore The South Brisbane coal wharf P20 Leon Beddington The customs service in Brisbane Robert Riddel The necessary monument: Preparing the Customs House for the next one hundred years

31 August Wander Historic Yeronga Seminar, Christ Church Hall, Rod Fisher Building and the early history of Yeronga walking tour Yeronga Greg Hallam Influence of the railways on the development of Yeronga (c. UQ Susan Martin Yeronga Park Applied History Judith Nissen Houses of the Killarney Estate precinct Centre) Bronwyn Price Houses of the ‘Kadumba’ precinct (Bronwyn Price) (Yeronga Heritage Tour) T18

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 12 October The Thin Blue Line Revisited: Police Seminar, Roma Street Police Gabrielle Flynn The creation of the Police Museum History museum tour Headquarters Brian Rough Pre-separation policing Margaret Kowald Queensland policing at the turn of the century Simon Wiley Native police and environs in Brisbane Margaret Pullar Here abideth The Law: Police stations in Brisbane

30 November A Little History, A Little Theatre, and Talks, play Chelmer Community Helen Gregory, Chelmer, the School of Arts and Centenary Theatre Group a Little Christmas Cheer (Neil Simon’s Centre Helen Bennett God’s Margaret Pullar Tales of the Ipswich Little Theatre Favourite) (Centenary (God’s favourite) Theatre Group) 1997 22 February AGM & Victoria Park: Some AGM, College Hall, St Joseph’s John Laverty Victoria Park: An overview P22 Historical Aspects Seminar seminar College, Gregory Terrace Malcolm Thomis The University of Queensland and Victoria Park Annette Saunders Victoria Park 1945-60 Diane Molloy Accommodating the American army 1941-45 (informal talk) 19 April The Fourth Estate Seminar Queensland Newspapers, Chris Mitchell The Courier-Mail, journalists and ethics Bowen Hills Dot Goldner The origins of The Courier-Mail Helen Taylor The Courier-Mail in World War 2 Bruce Grundy The Weekend Independent’ Alison Cotes Experiences in writing for The Courier-Mail Colin Sheehan Queensland Figaro Sean Leahy Life of a cartoonist 8 June The Challenge of the Time: YMCA Seminar YMCA Headquarters, Joe Goodall The YMCA Anniversary George Street Bryan Jamison Early days: YMCA to 1914 Nowell Taylor Growing up in the Y: 1934-41 Louise Quinn Widening horizons: YWCA in Queensland 1888-1988 Joe Goodall Revolution, reaction and rethinking: The 1970s Les Padman Challenge in our time and the future

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 3 August Time Gentlemen Please: Pub Culture Seminar Irish Club, Elizabeth Joe Goodall The alehouses of England Street Judy Rechner Queensland licensing legislation P17 Maureen Lillie Social customs and hotels P17 David Larkin Irish brewers and cordial manufactures in Brisbane P17 Margaret Pullar The commercial travellers Leo Maloney Pubs and clubs Nola Fulwood Researching pubs at Queensland State Archives Niles Elvery Photographs of hotels old and new Paul Sayer Hotels and insolvencies

19 October An Afternoon at Archerfield Seminar, Archerfield Aerodrome Effie Johnson Early Archerfield and God’s Acre historic cemetery venue tour Val Dennis Archerfield Airfield: The early years Roger Marks Archerfield Airfield: The war years Morris Jones Royal Queensland Aero Club: A history Helen Bennett Archerfield control tower building (Val Dennis, Effie (A tour of early Archerfield Aerodrome) Johnson, Helen Bennett) 29 November Christmas Cruise Boat trip, ‘Brisbane Star’ Mowbray commentary Park, Fisherman’s Island, Milton Reach 1998 21 February AGM & Somerville House: The early AGM, Somerville House, South Llewellyn William Stephens of South Brisbane and Woolloongabba Days Seminar seminar Brisbane Stephens Tom Watson The family home: ‘Cumbooquepa’ (Babette (Readings from Shakespeare) Stephens) Noelene Hall The Ladies

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 18 April Southern Moreton Bay Islands Tour Boat trip, Russell Island Michael Strong Geographical history of the islands talks, Norman Dean The pioneering days of the islands displays, launch of John Campbell The Campbell family and the islands RKLM Eileen Poem recitations: Oodgeroo Noonuccal and a Myora books, tour O’Loughlin corroboree (c. RKLM Robbie Kirk St Peter’s Anglican Church, Russell Island Islands Heritage Gp) 13 June Campus Walks and Talks Seminar, tour Steel Building, UQ Rosamond The Mayne inheritance and the University of Queensland of Great Siemon Court Ross Meakin The evolution of the St Lucia campus (Sylvia Bannah) (St Lucia Campus Heritage Tour) T20

23 August Spring Hill Heritage Tour Talk, walking Playground and Rod Fisher Queensland house styles and Spring Hill tour Recreation Association (Rod Fisher) (Spring Hill Heritage Tour: St Paul’s to Gregory Terrace) T12 of Queensland, Love Street, Spring Hill 24 October Brisbane’s Industrial Beginnings Seminar Sciencentre, Old Ray Whitmore Overview of the Sciencentre and the Government Printery Government Printery, Judith Anderson A short history of the Darra cement plant P20 George Street Marjorie Fainges The evolvement of the toy industry in Brisbane P20 Margaret Kowald The timber industry in Queensland Ray Whitmore William Highfield, a very civil engineer

2 December ‘The River Very Beautiful’ Seminar, Newstead House Peter Swan From humble beginnings: John Oxley and the Brisbane book launch, River Xmas drinks Colin Sheehan Thank you, Commissioner Bigge P23 (c. RHSQ, Barry Shaw Launch of Judy Rechner’s Brisbane House Styles 1880 to S2 Friends of 1940: A Guide to the Affordable House Newstead) 1999 27 February AGM & The Forty-niners AGM, RGSQ, Brookes Street Jennifer Harrison The Forty-niners P23 seminar John Mackenzie- Lang’s Cooksland Scheme: Where were the Scots? S5 Smith Elaine Brown The voyage of the ‘Fortitude’ P23

23 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 18 April New Farm Forensic Seminar, Holy Spirit School hall, John Schiavo 19th century New Farm bus/ferry tour, New Farm Susan Hill The Colonial Sugar Refinery, New Farm CSR, ‘Wynberg’, Jean Sim New Farm Park Holy Spirit Tony Hallam ‘Wynberg’ – Duhig’s residence church Helen Bennett From Quality Street to Mixed Assortment P22 Daniel Keenan The New Farm DCP

26 June Stombuco Buildings Tour Seminar, Palma Rosa Piero Georgi Stombuco, the man Palma Rosa Rod Fisher Introduction to Stombuco’s buildings tour, bus tour (Caroline Smith, (Stombuco Heritage Tour) T21 Rod Fisher) 31 July Living In Seminar, Edwin Tooth Lecture Robert Riddel The development of nurses’ accommodation nurses’ home Theatre, Royal Brisbane Pixie Annat Reflections of living in and museum Hospital tour Cecilia Brasil Images of nurses and their lifestyle (c. RBH Marcia Cowie The nurse training connection Graduate Mary Ellen Living out: Perspective from a student nurse of the 1980s Nurses Yarker Association)

9 October Witnessing West End Seminar , Ethnic Communities Bill Oliver The South Brisbane gasworks Greek Council Hall, West End Colin Sheehan West End population – now and then restaurant banquet Beryl Roberts West End’s horse-drawn buses P20 Judith Anderson From boots to ballet shoes: The story of the Thomas Dixon P20 Centre Con Castan The Greek presence in West End John Telfer The West End I used to know

21 November Dirty, Dank and Noisy Seminar, North Ipswich Railway John Kerr Why workshops? venue tour Workshops Greg Hallam Mighty times indeed: The closure of North Ipswich roundhouse Robyn and Bruce The North Ipswich Workshops Buchanan Bruce Niebling The powerhouse Mark Leisemann The future for North Ipswich

24 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 2000 26 February AGM & Towers, Television and AGM, Metro Inn Tower Mill, Dina Browne Television timetracks Brisbane’s Evolving Twentieth seminar Wickham Terrace Helen Bennett Brisbane’s evolving 20th century skyline Century Skyline Bill Oliver Ups and downs of the Bald Hills radiator Ray Whitmore The future of Mt Coot-tha’s television towers Helen Gregory Heritage into the 21st century 15 April Wickham Terrace Walkabout Talk, venue All Saints Church Hall, Rod Fisher Tackling the Terrace tour, walking Turbot Street Pat Marks Growing up on Wickham Terrace tour (Judy Rechner) (Spring Hill Heritage Tour: Wickham Terrace) T19

18 June Tramways Day Seminar, Ferny Grove Bowls Club Garry Ford Trams, tramways and termini P20 museum tour John Laverty The power behind the trams P20

6 August Interwar Housing Day Seminar, Hamilton Town Hall, Helen Bennett Setting the scene walking tour Racecourse Road, Judy Rechner Identifying the interwar house Hamilton Rod Fisher, Recreating the residence Vivien Harris, Ken Ramsay Nicola Stairmand Interpreting the interior P22 Maureen Lillie Inhabiting the home P22 Jeannie Sim Enjoying the garden P22

15 October A Performing Arts Day Seminar, Thomas Dixon Centre, Christina Ealing- The folk music tradition venue tour West End Godbold Connie Healy ‘Who shall speak out for the toilers?’: Brisbane’s political workers theatre answers the call Patricia Kelly Donald Smith: Australia’s pride? A talent forgotten Christopher Smith Treading the boards: A survey of theatre buildings in Brisbane, 1847-2000 Judith Anderson From sherry to champagne: Forty years of professional dance in Queensland

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 3 December Growing Up in Brisbane Seminar, St Matthew’s Church Jennifer Harrison Growing up in Brisbane venue tour, Hall, Grovely Pam Cory Through the eyes of a child Christmas cheer John Mackenzie- Teaching the teachers Smith 2001 24 February AGM & Brisbane at the Dawn of AGM, Queensland Museum Niles Elvery Panorama of Brisbane in 1901 Federation seminar Theatre Pat Loughren Turn-of-the-century Brisbane on film Helen Taylor As we were - Brisbane in 1901 21 April Brisbane and Federation Seminar Parliament House Paul Sayer Griffith and his insolvency bill Annexe Kate McConnel Brisbane: The key to Federation? P18 Nonie Malone Sir James Dickson John Laverty Queensland local government during the Federation decade P18 David Cameron Manufacturing and the business of federation P18 Bill Oliver Brisbane engineers at Federation: The men and their P18 institutions John Mackenzie- Two Queensland Federation poets and the Red Page Razor P18 Smith Ray Evans Brisbane society at the turn of the century P18 16 June Our Federation 1901: Heritage Trail Talk, walking Commissariat Stores Rod Fisher Introductory talk of Brisbane tour (Rod Fisher, Janet (Our Federation 1901 - Brisbane Heritage Trail) T22 Haywood, Chris Gabbett, Denise Austin & Vanessa Norimi) 16 August Children of the Commonwealth: Seminar Holy Trinity Church Keith Moore (per The male apprentice School to Work 1901-1910 (c. HQES) Hall, Fortitude Valley John Ainsworth Michael Marendy The female apprentice Tom Watson Brisbane children of the 1900s Marion McKenzie The Scholarship winner Geoff Swan The handicapped children Rod Pratt The junior cadet

26 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 27 October Our Health, Your Highnesses Seminar, Princess Alexandra Lorraine Cazalar Diamantina, Lady Bowen – Gracious Greek ambassador Diamantina Hospital Auditorium Owen Harris Overview of the Diamantina and Princess Alexandra Health Care Hospitals Museum displays Patricia O’Shea Matron Florence Chatfield John Armstrong The museum’s displays Jan Leo Centenary of health care, 1901 – 2001 Russell Strong Early history of transplantation in Queensland Maureen Spence- Changing nursing practices Thomas Bryan Emmerson The history of gout

1 December Federation Pub Tour and 21st Talks, bus Brunswick Barry Shaw Overview of the bus tour Birthday Bash tour Hotel, Brunswick Street, Rod Fisher, Ray Presidents’ reminiscences New Farm Whitmore, John Laverty, Jennifer Harrison, Paul Sayer, Barry Shaw 2002 23 February AGM & A Farewell to Federation AGM, Banco Court, Supreme Geoffrey Bolton Federation in retrospect seminar, Court Library Aladin Rahemtula The Supreme Court Library’s collection Lucinda Smoking Room tour

20 April Brisbane’s Environmental History Seminar, Griffith University Errol Stock Rocks, landscape and the shaping of Brisbane optional Jay Hall Aboriginal occupation and impact in the Brisbane area Toohey forest walk Tim Low Brisbane’s environment at the time of white settlement Carla Caterall How Brisbane’s environment has been and is being altered Libby Connors The history of Brisbane’s environmental movements Mary Maher Environment-development issues in Brisbane in the 21st century

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 10 August Brisbane’s Commercial Past Talks, Irish Club, Elizabeth Brian Randall Brisbane in the 1840s: Some aspects of commercial and walking tour Street economic development John Laverty The birth pangs of the Brisbane Stock Exchange Helen Bennett The business of building: Remodelling Brisbane’s central business district 1900-1940 Judith Nissen Pedestrian passages and consumer dreamworlds: Shopping arcades in Brisbane (Helen Bennett) (Brisbane’s Commercial Heritage 1900-1940 - Three T23 Walking Tours of the CBD) 19 October Honourable Members Seminar Parliament House Mervyn Royle Ratcliffe Pring, QC Annexe Jennifer Harrison Some early Queensland senators Neil Harrison Some interesting cases of contempt and privilege and the Queensland Parliament Paul Williams Deconstructing ‘Gortonism’: John Gorton’s place in Australian political history Margaret Klaasen, Readings from Hansard: Queensland’s contribution to the Paul Sayer, Bill Boer War Oliver Tim Moroney Some north Queensland members of parliament

30 November Christmas Capers Refresh- Newstead House ments, trivia quiz 2003 22 February AGM & Some Brisbane Museums: AGM, Landcentre Museum of Leo Moloney Queensland communications and the Telstra Museum Collectors and Their Collections Seminar Surveying, W’gabba Judith McKay Interpreting museum collections: Some case studies from Queensland Museum Michelle Smith The treasures of Redland Museum: Collections, collectors and community Bill Kitson Highlights of collecting for a small museum

5 and 12 April God and Mammon Walking tours City business hub (T15, Ann Street churches T23)

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 15 June Camp Hill, Seven Hills, Whites Hill, Seminar Queen Alexandra John Laverty Belmont Shire: From start to finish Belmont: History and Heritage Community Centre John Kerr (per Belmont tramway: A failed speculation Geoff Cossins) Ron Baker Churches of the district: An overview John Cotter, WWII US Navy Mobile Hospital No. 9 at Camp Hill David Morgan Eris Jolly Seven Hills re-established Heather Barnes Whites Hill: A green area 23 August Moorlands and More Seminar, Wesley Hospital Mervyn Royle Some people and places of old Toowong Moorlands Auditorium Bernadette Turner Moorlands: Fact and fiction tour Cyril Wheeler Moorlands kids remember Noel Quirke (per Let honour stainless be: Brisbane Boys’ College in Toowong Helen Derek) Jean Stewart (per A little old lady of Toowong – Sarah Ann Cornell Joan Fountain) 8 November Gardens and parks Seminar Mt Coot-tha Auditorium Jeannie Sim Harry Oakman, landscape architect and garden writer Ian Sinnamon Karl Langer: From the Vienna Woods – a modernist in Brisbane Maureen See Special trees of the CBD Beth Wilson History of the Brisbane City Botanical Gardens Lawrie Smith Roma Street Parkland 29 November Feminists, Flappers and Reformers Seminar UQ Forgan-Smith Belinda McKay Early Brisbane women writers Building Patrick Buckridge Olga Moss Penton and Brisbane’s literary Bohemia in the 1920s Emily Watson The women’s movement in Brisbane 1900-1920 Shirleene Brisbane women and the ‘flapper’ image of the 1920s Robinson Kay Saunders Brisbane women and the Miss Australia Quest Jessie Paten Brisbane women’s activism and their quest for the vote Joanne Scott Making ends meet: Brisbane women’s paid and unpaid labour in the Great Depression Julie Ustinoff The 1960s and feminist protest in Brisbane

29 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 2004 28 February AGM & Schemes and Dreams: AGM, Old Government House, Penny Cook George Street Migrant Depots Immigration to Brisbane in the seminar George Street Jennifer Harrison Government schemes and immigrant dreams Nineteenth Century Mervyn Royle Thank God for the rector’s daughter: Immigrant Bedworth P23 ribbon-weavers Robyn Roylance The bounty hunters: the 1883-84 mechanics P23

15 May Skirting Brisbane’s Northern Dress Talks, bus Hamilton Town Hall, Denis Cleary ‘Tis ae whin and stane’ Circle tour Racecourse Road, Rod Fisher Investigating the house-scape Hamilton

3 July Diggles Down Under: The Life and Seminar, All Hallows School, Ann Rod Fisher The man S3 Times of Silvester Diggles Mercy Street Louis Pigott The birds Centre, chapel tour Geoff Monteith The insects George Diggles The family Peter Connell The place

21 August Documenting Brisbane Seminar Queensland State John Laverty Historical sources: A case study Archives Karen Friedl Digging for gold: Finding the unexpected at QSA Annabel Lloyd BCC Archives and research possibilities Greg Cope Immigration restriction acts: Records held at the NAA Brisbane office Marianne Eastgate Church recording Leanne Day Brisbane Literary Circle: The quest for ‘universal culture’ 30 October Centenary of the City of Ipswich Talks, bus Barry Jones Auditorium, Robin Buchanan Ipswich Town, City of Ipswich: What’s in a name? tour, Ipswich City Council Doug Mercer Battle lines: The struggle for electricity supply in Ipswich, P20 Gooloowan David Mewes Queensland government railways in 1904 4 December Christmas at Cleveland Talks, bus Grand View Hotel, The Grand View Hotel trip, trivia Cleveland quiz, Christmas lunch, tour venue and St Paul’s Church

30 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 2005 26 February AGM & Past Visions of Brisbane’s AGM, Sherwood Room, Bill Metcalf The nature of utopianism Future seminar, Brisbane City Hall Errol O’Neill Brisbane in the 1880s and 1890s Museum of Brisbane tour Bill Metcalf, Errol Dramatised readings on past visions of Brisbane’s future O’Neill, Daryll Bellingham Daryll The future of the ‘Past visions of Brisbane’s future’ project Bellingham

1 May Radical Brisbane Seminar TLC Building, Peel Connie Healy Radical theatre in Brisbane Street, South Brisbane Carole Ferrier, Women’s liberation in Brisbane Margaret Reid Pam Young Emma Miller Deborah Jordan The suffrage struggles and Leontine Cooper

16 July Bardon Heritage Tour Seminar, bus Mercy Centre, Simpsons Manfred Cross Bardon background tour Road, Bardon Hilary Davies Rainworth retreat – ‘Fairseat’ and the Hume Family (Barry Shaw) (Bardon Heritage Tour) T24

27 August Gateway to a City Seminar Naldham House, Eagle Jennifer Harrison The first settlers at Brisbane Town: Soldiers, civilians, Street, City officials and prisoners Paul Sayer Settling in at Moreton Bay 1824-25 P23 Noel Field Building from the Brisbane River P23 Helen Bennett The river, the line, the shipping offices and the tower: Naldham House as a signature building 12 November A Scottish Presence in Stombuco’s Book launch College Hall, St Joseph’s Peter Nicol Sir Thomas Brisbane Hall College, Gregory Terrace Elaine Brown John Pettigrew Jean Stewart Launch of John-Mackenzie-Smith’s book The Scottish S5 Presence at Moreton Bay 1837-59. John-Mackenzie- Response Smith

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 2006 26 February AGM & In Gothic Splendour AGM, Darnell Room, St Harm Hollander Gothic architecture in a colonial setting seminar, Martin’s Centre; St cathedral John’s Cathedral, Ann tour, BHG Street 25th toast

7 May Cemetery Sourcery Cemetery Toowong Cemetery; Hilda Maclean Toowong Cemetery; 1871 to the Great War tour, seminar St Thomas Anglican Jeff Hilder The Gap Pioneer Cemetery from 1874 Centre, Toowong Annette Lourigan Thoroughly modern funerals Jackie Butler Tingalpa Pioneers Cemetery from 1868 Kelvin Johnstone Cemetery maintenance and cultural value 24 June Lighting-up Brisbane Seminar, Rooftop , Brisbane Bill Metcalf Introduction to pre-gas lighting and power venue tour Powerhouse Brian King The South Brisbane Gas and Light Company P20 Jim Simmers ‘And there was light in Brisbane’ P20 Jan King Promoting electricity in Brisbane 1930s – 1950s P20 Doug Mercer Lightning: ‘And then there was darkness in Brisbane’ P20 Peter Roy/Ben History of the Powerhouse Gosney

26 August The Making of Ashgrove Seminar, Sophia Centre, Mt St Nurdon Serico You can’t step in the same river twice P21 venue visit Michael’s College, Dick Paten Glimpses of pre-separation Ashgrove P21 Ashgrove Paul Sayer Robert Little: ‘More than a local solicitor’ P21 Dick Paten The free-holding of Ashgrove P21 Manfred Cross What is Ashgrove? [The making of Ashgrove] P21 Paul Sayer Daniel Rowntree Somerset: ‘A scrupulously upright P21 gentleman’ John Laverty Town Planning and the Glenlyon Gardens Estate P21 Judith Stewart JK Stewart and ‘Grantuly’ Alison Terrey The Sisters of Charity and Mt St Michael’s College Janet Hogan The Woodlands precinct: some streets in Ashgrove’s P21 forgotten east [Hogan’s half-acre: Woodlands, Ashgrove] Lindy Sugars Oakleigh State School the early years 32 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 26 August John Laverty Alexander Jolly: Ithaca gardener P21 (cont.) Dick Paten Alexander Stewart: foundations for empire P21 Thom Blake The greening of Ashgrove 2 September Exploring Ashgrove Bus tour Ashgrove (Dick Paten) (Ashgrove Heritage Tour) T25

8 October Walter Taylor: Master of Concrete Seminar, Graceville Uniting Noel Davis Walter Taylor, the man and Steel church tour Church Hall, Oxley Road Colin O’Connor The bridge (c Oxley- Margaret Cook The church Chelmer History Ralph Fones The homes Group) 18 November From Dry Dock to Wet Pub Museum Maritime Museum, Ship Bill Metcalf Ship Inn: 141 years young tours, talks, Inn Peter Nunan South Brisbane dry dock refreshments

c. in collaboration with P1, etc BHG Papers series S1, etc BHG Studies series T1, etc BHG Tour Guide series

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 2007 24 February AGM & Nats and Gnats in Nature AGM, Royal Geographical Joan Cribb “The poetry of Earth is never dead”: A short history of The seminar Society of Queensland, Queensland Naturalists’ Club Milton David Hockings Musings and mentors Geoff Monteith Nats en masse: the scientific contribution of the annual Nats camp outs 14 April Captain J.C. Wickham Seminar Commissariat Stores Rod McLeod JC Wickham – the mariner Julian Wagner JC Wickham – the magistrate Mervyn Royle JC Wickham – the man P23 Question time – your verdict on JC Wickham

16 June The Ekka – Ekkaciting, Ekkataining Seminar GT125 Theatre, St Joanne Scott Introduction and overview and Ekkaspensive Joseph’s College, Ross Laurie Indigenous Queenslanders and the Exhibition Gregory Terrace Joanne Scott Women and the Exhibition Joanne Scott, Traditions, innovations and themes Ross Laurie

25 August The Yanks are Here Seminar MacArthur Museum, Albert Palazzo, Brisbane 1941 as a base for war MacArthur Chambers, per Eliza Queen & Edward Streets Matthews Peter Nunan US subs down under Roger Marks Brisbane: World War II and now from a US Archives photo viewpoint Mervyn Royle What the newspapers were saying: A review of wartime news in Brisbane (Bill Bentson and Discussion: Those who lived it others)

29 September Mitchelton Turns 150 History Displays, Mitchelton Library, Nurdon Serico Indigenous history of area Celebration talks and bus Heliopolis Parade Dorothy Jeffrey Early settlers of Mitchelton tour Daryll The Mitchy Turns 150 Digital project Bellingham

34 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 24 November A Brisbane River Sunset Cruise Boat-cruise, ‘Brisbane Star’, commentary Hawthorn to St Lucia 2008 23 February AGM & Roadbuilding in Brisbane AGM, Engineering House, John Laverty The evolution of road construction in Brisbane 1859-1925 P28 seminar Edward Street Bill Oliver Brisbane’s roads in the 1920s 12 April Retailing and Redevelopment Seminar Holy Trinity hall, Valley Thom Blake On the fringe: The evolution of Roma Street 1840s-2007 P28 Paul Sayer The Bligh plan – a grand failure P28 Beverley Isdale Shop till you drop in Chermside: New beginnings P28 Helen Bennett Early closing and the failure of ‘moral suasion’: Working in P28 Brisbane’s late nineteenth century drapery stores Jan Power The luck of the Irish 21 June In the Swim Seminar GT125 Theatre, St Bill Oliver Floating in the Brisbane River: 1849-1928 Joseph’s College, John Laverty Spring Hill Baths: Brisbane’s first custom-built swimming P28 Gregory Terrace pool John Laverty Swimming in the Valley: The Wickham Street Baths P28 Bill Oliver The Centenary Aquatic Centre, Gregory Terrace: 48 years on Barry Short Commercial Swimming Club

9 August Seminar, bus Gaythorne RSL Adels Catts Boer War to Baghdad: The Light Horse tour of Merle McGovern Gallipoli Barracks: 100 years of military and civilian Barracks cohesion (Bus tour of Gallipoli Barracks and visits to 9th Bn War Memorial Museum and 2/14th LH (QMI) Museum, National Memorial Walk)

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 11 October Professions in Training Seminar Queensland State Margaret Vider The rocky road to destiny for followers of Flo: From Archives, Runcorn hospitals to university Geoff Swan Queensland early special educators Elizabeth On the job: Records relating to trades and professions Hawkins Helen Gregory, ‘At any price I will do my duty: The ‘apprenticeship’ model Paul Sayer in the law Bill Kitson Men drawing straight lines

30 November Battle of the Boffins Talk, trivia Souths RLFC, Davies Pam Cory History of Davies Park quiz Park 2009 28 February SOS: Finding the Treasures and AGM, GT125 Theatre, St Rod Fisher Seeking the treasures Flying the Flag of Separation seminar Joseph’s College, Rod Fisher Flying the flag Gregory Terrace

18 April Sites of Separation Heritage Tour Walk and bus St Andrew’s Lutheran Rod Fisher Overview T26 tours Church Hall, Wickham Treasures of St Andrew’s Terrace

1 June Opening of Signs of Separation: An Exhibition Commissariat Store (Penelope (Launch of Boosting Brisbane: Imprinting the Colonial So12 Exhibition of Hidden Treasures, and opening and Wensley) Capital of Queensland by Rod Fisher) launch of Boosting Brisbane: book launch Imprinting the Colonial Capital of c. RHSQ Queensland

8 August Separating Queensland in 1859: Seminar Commissariat Store Maurice French Squatters and Separation Eventualities, Personalities and JRHSQ c. RHSQ Libby Connors An aboriginal witness before the courts 20(13) 2010 Urbanities 775 John Pearn Medicine in the era of separation ibid 904 Bill Oliver Public works in the Northern Districts ibid 871 John Mackenzie- Brisbane’s moral renaissance – the Lang factor ibid 904 Smith Colin Sheehan Matthew Henry Marsh ibid 884 Kate McConnel The complexities of Sir George Bowen ibid 858 36 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 8 August Bruce Knox RGW Herbert: “a statesman trained in Queensland Ibid 832 (cont.) John Laverty The making of the Municipality of Brisbane 1859 ibid 847 Jennifer Harrison Parsons, pubs and policemen: Defining Brisbane ibid 820 Rod Fisher When did Brisbane become the capital of Queensland? 18 October Policing Queensland 1859-2009 Seminar Roma Street Police Lisa Jones Policing Queensland 1859-1863 c. Brisbane’s Headquarters Jonathon Richards Queensland Mounted Police Living Stephanie Bennett Frederick Urquhart: the second son Heritage Network Tim Prenzler The history of women in the Queensland Police Lisa Jones Policing as a profession

20 November Launch of The Making of a Book launch Commissariat Store, (Campbell (Launch of The Making of a Metropolis: Brisbane 1859- S6 Metropolis: Brisbane 1859-1925 c. RHSQ William Street Newman) 1925 by John Laverty) 2010 28 February AGM and Seminar: Launch of AGM, book Mercy Heritage Centre, (Ian Callinan) (Launch of Tom Hurstbourne or A Squaller’s Life by John So 13 Historic 1865 Novel launch, 547 Ann St, Fortitude Clavering Wood) seminar, tour Valley Gerard Benjamin The book of Heritage Centre Pat Buckridge As literature Rod Fisher As history Gerard Benjamin As drama 24 April The Armour of the Army: Military Seminar, Fort Lytton National Rod Pratt (per The rise of Queensland’s volunteer forces 1860-69 Defences of Colonial Queensland guided tour Park Brian Rough) Geoff Ginn From QVF to QDF: Colonial defence 1878-84 Brian Rough Martinis and martinets: Defending Brisbane 1884-1901

19 June Tell it on the Mountain: Brisbane’s Seminar The Hut, 47 Fleming Rd, Lyn Cole Introduction to The Hut Mt Coot-tha Chapel Hill Janet Spillman Queensland’s first forest park John Laverty Jolly’s vantage points for Brisbane Jack Ford and World War II history of Mt Coot-tha P24 Brian Rough Ross McKinnon Look how we’ve grown: Brisbane Botanic Gardens Janet Spillman Kiosk to contemporary conflicts

37 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 28 August Seeking Houses, Suburbs and Seminar, Merthyr Road Uniting David Hinchliffe (Launch of BHG Papers 22: Brisbane: Houses, suburbs, Sanctuaries book launch, Church Centre, New Gardens and Congregations) guided tour Farm Rod Fisher Discovering the history of a house P22 Gerard Benjamin Producing the history of a suburb P22 John Mackenzie- Recovering the history of religious institutions P22 Smith

23 October Communications: From Postmaster to Seminar GT125 Theatre, St Bill Oliver PD Vigors: A colourful engineer of Ipswich Rd in the 1850s P28 Telstra Joseph’s College, Paul Sayer (FWS The Moreton Bay postal system (extracts of 1916 HSQ Gregory Terrace Cumbrae-Stewart) paper) Manfred Cross The magic wire Bill Oliver (DG “On air” (extracts from 1988 paper) Sanderson) David Brownsey Some employee reminiscences: PMG, Telecom, Telstra

27 November From Backyard to the Big Screen: An Seminar, film Auditorium 2, State Naomi Elliott Queenslanders on Film: Amateur film collecting at the State Afternoon at the Pictures Library of Queensland Library of Queensland Joan Bruce Queensland on Film: The National Film and Sound Archives Collection Jack Singe (Answers questions on his involvement in the making of Charles Chauvel’s film, Sons of Matthew Screening of Sons of Matthew 2011 26 February AGM and Seminar: Queensland’s AGM, Banco Court, Supreme Niles Elvery 19th century records of the Supreme Court at Queensland Higher Courts Seminar Court, 304 George Street State Archives Denver Beanland A court on the cheap: Queensland’s District Court Don Watson A tolerably imposing pile: The Brisbane law courts 1879- 1976

16 April Cultural Icons of South Brisbane Seminar, Griffith Film School, Cnr Craig Douglas Queensland College of Art, Griffith University tours Vulture and Dock streets, Peter Roennfeldt Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University South Brisbane Bill Metcalf South Brisbane Mechanics Institute/Public Library/GFS Building Bill Metcalf South Brisbane Memorial Park

38 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 16 April Marjorie South Brisbane Municipal Chambers (cont.) Shackelton (Tours of Griffith Film School building and South Brisbane Municipal Chambers)

25 June Brisbane Down Under Seminar GT125 Theatre, Jon Prangnell Artefact recovery from under the collapsed Commissariat St Joseph’s College, Store retaining wall Gregory Terrace Ann Wallin Under City Hall – Introduction Phil Hapgood Under City Hall Geoff Ginn The big picture: Study Michael The big picture: Collection Westaway Cameron Harvey Brisbane: Recent archaeological discoveries

6 August Brisbane: People and Places of Book launch Ashgrove Library, Kate Jones MP (Launch of Papers 21) Ashgrove Amarina Avenue

27 August Brisbane’s Second World War Seminar Coorparoo RSL and John Mackenzie- Hitler’s first defeat; The 2/15th Battalion’s role P24 Community Club, smith 45 Holdsworthy Street, Jean Stewart Colonel Kenneth Fraser and the 2/2 Australian General P24 Coorparoo Hospital at El Kantara Janet Hogan ‘A Cameron never yields’: the 61st Battalion Queensland P24 Cameron Highlanders Roger Marks Bring home the images – an update P24 Bob Livingstone Saving Eagle Farm’s Hanger 7 P24 Brian Rough The role of Fort Lytton during WWII P24 Peter Dunn Women at war in Brisbane P24 David Jones Brisbane’s submarine war P24 Marilyn England Advanced land headquarters at St Lucia during WWII P24 Paul Sayer The 2/9th Battalion memorial P24 Matt Smith Mapping Brisbane during WWII 8 October Not Only a Boiling Down Works: Seminar Queen Alexandra Ron Baker From Wheat Point to Kangaroo Point; From convict Kangaroo Point, Woolloongabba and Community Centre, Old settlement to suburb East Brisbane Cleveland Road, John Laverty Municipal secession south of the Brisbane River, 1965-1877 Coorparoo Bill Oliver South Brisbane engineers 39 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 8 October Therese Murtagh Crime and Kangaroo Point – to 1930 (cont.)

19 November Colonial Life from the Darling Downs Book launch Museum of Lands, Pat Buckridge Fern Vale as literature So14 to Brisbane Town Museum tour Mapping and Surveying, Rod Fisher (per The novel as history S7 Woolloongabba Barry shaw) Bill Kitson Walter Cunningham Hume, colonial surveyor Hilary Davies Surveying the success Launch of Fern Vale (Colin Munro) and Surveying Success: The Hume Family in Colonial Queensland (Hilary Davies) 2012 26 February AGM and seminar: Crime and AGM Victoria Barracks Libby Connors, Indigenous law Punishment Seminar Brisbane Club, Victoria Alex Bond Barracks, Petrie Terrace Laura Penny St Helena Island, Moreton Bay Alana Piper Juvenile prostitution and public anxiety in Brisbane 1885- 1914 Lisa Jones Bombing of the CIB building, 1927

26 May For Queen and Empire: Queensland Seminar Undumbi Room, Colin Sheehan What’s in a name P26 and the South African War 1899-1902 Parliamentary Annexe, Lynette Finch With targets on their chests: Drawing civilians into warfare Alice Street Dale Kerwin Lost trackers John Perne Military medicine: Queensland and the Anglo-Boer War P26 Paul Sherman Labor lashes Boer War; Christopher Brennan’s ant-war poems Isobel Annat A family pilgrimage; lieut. James Annat and Elands River Margaret The myths and messages in the South African war memorial Klaassen in Anzac Square

21 July Incarcerating Crooks and Saving Seminar QPS HQ Conference Lisa Jones Catching crooks: the Modus Operandi Section Lives Room, Roma Street Chuck Galea The history of corrective services in Brisbane Paul Seto The Pearl Ferry disaster: saving lives in 1890 Mick Davis The history of Queensland Ambulance Ken Capell Brisbane ablaze 40 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 22 September Bribie Island’s Seaside Culture: Its Seminar GT125 Theatre, Michael Strong The people of Yarun: prehistory and historical references to History and Heritage St Joseph’s College, the Aboriginal people of Bribie Island Gregory Terrace Rod Fensham Leichhardt’s impressions of Moreton Bay Chris Pearce Thomas Pamphlett at Bribie Island Jim Lergessner An overview of Bribie Island history Richard Walding Bribie Island in World War II P24 Claire Roberts Ian Fairweather’s photographs of Bribie Island

25 November Presenting Brisbane’s History through Book and Ross Johnston Launch of Rod Fisher’s The Best of Colonial Brisbane Book and Film film launch Pat Laughran Documentary films and Brisbane history Paul Davidson The making of Past Forward, the documentary about the old South Brisbane Library, now Griffith Film School Bill Metcalf An historian working? lost? in making a documentary [First public showing of Past forward] Bloody bloopers

2013 23 February AGM and seminar: Surveying AGM and Royal Geographical Nurdon Serico Brisbane seminar Society of Queensland, Sandy Pollock The lost vine forests of Brisbane Milton Paddy Waterson Brisbane’s marine archaeology Hilary Davies Brisbane’s government precinct as a residential area Ken Granger Queensland by Degrees: A community geography (and history)

11 May Club Land Seminar Irish club, 175 Elizabeth Paul Sayer Johnsonian Club: The early years 1878-1900 St Cathryn The Lyceum Club: An interim history Mittelheuser (per Shirley McCorkindale) Pixie Annat The United Services Club John Campbell The Queensland Club Colin Sheehan The German Club Jennifer Harrison Beating a path to the door: The Queensland Irish Association

41 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 13 July The Kirk on the Hill Seminar St Paul’s Presbyterian Stewart Gill “Priest-skelping turns”: disunion and union in the Church, St Paul’s Presbyterian tradition Terrace, Spring Hill David Parker The day the suits flew off the shelf and went to church: Charles Stewart and the United Evangelical Church Dianne Parker Mature Scottish immigrant seeks congregation – apply School of Arts…”: Rev. Matthew McGavin and the foundation of the St Paul’s congregation Russell and Susan From Creek Street to the Kirk on the Hill Cowie Tim O’Donnell FDG Stanley and the architecture of the Kirk on the Hill Dianne Parker, Some views from the pews Doug Milne

21 September A Robin Dods Tour Talk and bus Theosophical Society Robert Riddel Robin Dods overview. Introduction to tour T27 tour Auditorium, Wickham Terrace 2 November Exploring the River: Ships, Wrecks Seminar GT125 Theatre, Ian Jempson Early exploration of the river and the Odd Flying Boat St Joseph’s College, David Gibson Gallant Gayundah and the curse of the white flag Gregory Terrace Paddy Waterson Bowing out gracefully: The wreck of the Grace Darling, Moreton Bay David Jones The Brisbane River in World War Two P24 David Jones Flying boats on the river 2014 22 February AGM and seminar: The Changing AGM and GT125 Theatre, Jane Cowell We need to talk: Libraries in the 21st century Role of Public Libraries seminar St Joseph’s College, Louise Denoon The changing role of John Oxley Library as custodian of Gregory Terrace WW1 stories Jörn Harbeck Merchants of knowledge; Antiquarian bookselling in Brisbane, then and now

10 May Roll out the Railway Seminar GT125 Theatre, Ruth Kerr How country lines became a major suburban system P28 St Joseph’s College, Greg Hallam A railway jubilee in Brisbane: Queensland Railways and its P28 Gregory Terrace jubilee year of 1914 Margaret The 1950s railway stations Lawrence-Drew

42 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 10 May (cont.) Geraldine Mate Comfort and cool … for everybody: The early development and David Mewes of the suburban rail network in Brisbane

21 June Creeks and Catchments Seminar Griffith Film School, Jonathon Richards Creeks and catchments Stanley Street, South Trish FitzSimons Many con/tributaries to a creek history’s research and Brisbane outputs: Time and tide – The life of Norman Creek case study Bryan Hacker The Moggill Creek catchment in west Brisbane: Forest to suburbia Sandy Pollock A history of Three-Mile Creek, Ashgrove Robyn Trotte An oral history of the Cubberla-Witton Creeks catchments Angus Veitch There once was a creek ...exploring the lost waterways of the Milton Reach 6 September Brisbane and World War I Seminar GT125 Theatre, Donald Smith Brisbane’s underage volunteers, World War I P26 St Joseph’s College, Susanna de Vries Grace Wilson and her Brisbane nurses on Lemnos Island and Gregory Terrace HMHS Gascon at Anzac Cove Kate Ariotti Queenslanders and captivity: Prisoners of the Turks during the first World War Susan Kellett In the light of loss: The Clark window of St John’s Cathedral P26 Delyse Ryan ‘A monument of unselfish effort’: Brisbane’s experience of P26 theatre during World War I

25 October Future-proofing Local History: A Seminar GT125 Theatre, Jonathon Richards Introduction Snapshot of Brisbane’s Local History St Joseph’s College, Representatives [Short presentation on group’s activities] Scene Gregory Terrace from history groups 2015 28 February AGM and seminar: Five Grand AGM and GT125 Theatre, Libby Black St Margaret’s gems Brisbane Homes seminar St Joseph’s College, Peter Fegan Houses my mother grew up in Gregory Terrace

16 May Remembering Brisbane Seminar and GT125 Theatre, Barry Shaw Reigniting, reliveing and recording the past: The first thirty- BHG 35th St Joseph’s College, five years of the Brisbane History Group anniversary Gregory Terrace Jennifer Harrison Brisbane Town; A rag is hoisted Ross Johnson Brisbane; a capital emergent? 43 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 16 May (cont.) Paul Sayer Brisbane: A growing city

4 July Brisbane Diseased: Contagions, Cures Seminar Marks-Hirschfeld John Pearn Diseases come and go: Combatting disease in the Moreton P25 and Controversy Museum of Medical Bay settlement and early Brisbane History, Mayne Medical Jonathan Pragnell Leprosy and Peel Island School, Herston Pamela Rushby The Black Death in Brisbane P25 Bill Metcalf Dr TP Lucas and Plague denial: ‘More terrible than war’ P25 Helen V Smith Spanish flu comes to Brisbane P25 Yorick Smaal Venereal disease and WWII Alana Piper Prosecuting medical quackery: Foreign practitioners, P25 pseudo-medicine and cancer curers John Thearle Lead poisoning in Queensland P25 Rosemary Knight Guardians of women’s health: Corsetieres and the P25 medicalisation of corsetry Veronika The dugong oil medical industry Folkmanova Paul Sayer Sister Elizabeth Kenny; A prophet unrecognised? 4 October Brisbane and World War I (Part 2) Seminar GT125 Theatre, David Jones Ripples from a distant war P26 St Joseph’s College, Robert Likeman The least-known distinguished man in Queensland Gregory Terrace John Pearn Brisbane paediatricians and World War I P26 Cliff Pollard The Brisbane Hospital and the Great War Delyce Ryan Performing patriotism: A reflection on the way Brisbane’s P26 theatre companies responded to World War I John Moses Canon DJ Garland: The theological maverick who designed P26 Anzac Day Mark Cryle ‘A sob seemed to shake the community’: Brisbane’s first Anzac Day 7 November Post-War Architecture Seminar GT125 Theatre, Saadia Queensland State Archives St Joseph’s College, Thompson-Dwyer Gregory Terrace Gavin Bannerman John Oxley Library Debra van der Women architects Plaat

44 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 7 November Janina Gosseye & Healthy minds and healthy bodies: Building Queensland’s (cont.) Alice Hampson community, one weatherboard at a time Helen Bennett Post-war Brisbane housing: A builder’s perspective P28 Don Watson Sometimes there wasn’t an Australian in the room: Migrant architects in post-war Brisbane 2016 28 January AGM and Launch of Brisbane AGM, book Marks-Hirschfeld Jennifer Harrison Protecting Brisbane: Health officers and maritime quarantine P25 Diseased book launch and Museum of Medical in pre-Separation Queensland seminar History, Mayne Medical Gerald Hugo Ré Sex, women and the venereal, Brisbane 1850-1911 P25 School, Herston Lee Butterworth ‘Well! Where will I put the b***** thing?’ the battle to P25 upgrade the Brisbane City Morgue Paul Sayer ‘Last of the great childhood plagues’: Polio in Queensland P25 14 May Where Did They Go? Some Early Seminar GT125 Theatre, Claire Stewart Berilda Private Hospital 1933-1958 Brisbane Private Hospitals 1860-1960 St Joseph’s College, Barry Shaw Boothville Gregory Terrace Paul Sayer Dalkeith and Mansfield private hospitals: Two vignettes Sandra Bayley Ashgrove Private Hospital Paul Sayer Turrawan: A tale of two private hospitals

16 July Kangaroo Point Tour Bus tour Unity Hall, Wesley Ron Baker Overview of Kangaroo Point Kangaroo Point Uniting Church, Princess Street

17 September South Brisbane Cemetery Ghost Tour Walking tour South Brisbane Cemetery, Dutton Park 12 November Mt Gravatt Tour Bus tour Mt Gravatt Showgrounds Paul Sayer Overview of Mt Gravatt Holland Park Mosque 2017 25 January AGM and Prosecution Project AGM and GT125 Theatre, Mark Finnane and Digitising Queensland’s criminal history Seminar seminar St Joseph’s College, Alana Piper Gregory Terrace Robyn Blewer Children in Queensland’s courts since 1900 Lisa Durnian Pleading Guilty: The 1941 Royal Commission Mark Finnane Homicide in Queensland, 1860s-1950s 45 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 27 May Policing Colonial Brisbane Seminar GT125 Theatre, Anastasia Dukova Policing colonial Brisbane: The good, the bad and the St Joseph’s College, ghastly Gregory Terrace Ray Kerkhove Boundaries, parks and police raids: The conflicted space of Aboriginal encampments Jennifer Harrison ‘May it please Your Excellency’: Colonial Secretary’s correspondence pre-separation Queensland Anna Temby Construction and contestation of public space in late colonial Brisbane Lisa Jones How to be unscrupulous in late 19th century Brisbane 15 July West End Bus Tour Bus tour Orleigh Park, West End Tim Quinn Overview of West End

9 September Victoria Barracks and the Defence of Seminar and Victoria Barracks Adele Catts Introduction and conducted tour of the Barracks the Colony site tour Ben Gall Heritage in context Denver Beanland Queensland foreign and defence policies, 1859-1901 Jeff Hopkins- An imperial presence, and Queensland’s scarlet legacy Wise & Rod Pratt Adele Catts Current exhibition - The Light Horse in Queensland Brian Rough Those Devils of course, of the Permanent Force. Victoria Barracks and its place in the restructuring of colonial Queensland’s military forces John Pearn Asklepios in uniform. Military medicine in colonial Queensland 18 November Tertiary Education in Brisbane: Seminar GT125 Theatre, Jonathon Holland Training in the ministry P27 Before There Were Universities St Joseph’s College, Denise Hope & Training in pharmacy P27 Gregory Terrace Peter Mayne Keith Moore Training to be a teacher Joy Wilson Training to be a nurse P27 Peter Roennfeldt Training as a musician P27

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Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 2018 25 February AGM and Remembering Rod Fisher AGM, book GT125 Theatre, Ross Johnston Remembering Rod launch and St Joseph’s College, Barry Shaw Rod, the Tudor historian seminar Gregory Terrace Jennifer Harrison Rod, the interdisciplinary approach Paul Sayer Rod, the formation and direction of BHG Barry Shaw Launch of Brisbane at war 1899-1918 Bill Oliver Rod, the Brisbane Fisher Library Joe Goodall Rod, the PhD supervisor John Mackenzie- Rod, the editor Smith Helen Bennett Rod, the heritage consultant

19 May Tertiary Education in Brisbane: Seminar and John –Paul II Building, Bill Metcalf Evolution of universities in Brisbane P27 Then There Were Universities book launch Australian Catholic Jim Nyland The idea of a Catholic university in Queensland P27 University, Nudgee Road, Banyo Jim Nyland Launch of Brisbane: Training, Teaching and Turmoil – Tertiary Education 1825-2018 Cassandra Byrnes A history of university women in Brisbane P27 Jon Piccini Queensland universities as places of political and social P27 foment Bill Metcalf Summary and future of tertiary education P27

21 July History in the Digital Age Seminar The Ship Inn, Stanley Bill Metcalf The Ship Inn and Sidon sts, South Neville Buch The Mapping Brisbane project Brisbane Lee Butterworth The Harry Gentle Resource Centre & Mark Finnane Magnus Eriksson The Cloudland interior, a digital reproduction Thom Blake Queensland history e-resources – a new website 15 September A History of Sport in Brisbane Seminar GT125 Theatre, Lisa Jones Constable Kearney and the Western Suburbs Amateur St Joseph’s College, Athletics Club Gregory Terrace Peter Eedy The origins of organised football in Brisbane Lee McGowen Ladies’ soccer in Brisbane Greg Mallory Rugby league in Brisbane from the ’50s to the ’70s 47 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 15 September Rebecca Olive Good Times and the history of the Brisbane Boardriders (cont.) Murray Phillips The Cherbourg Women’s Marching Band

10 November The Peace Seminar Karuna House, Mark Cryle Dear Mr Ryan, I am writing about my son – loyalty fatigue 27 Cartwright Street, on the Queensland home front in 1918 Windsor Lisa Jackson Dunwich, the last resort – the experience of First World War Returned Soldiers in the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum and the Dunwich Inebriate Institution Cara Downes Suspicion, detention and deportation – the treatment of ‘aliens’ during and after the end of the war Gemmia Burden A very useful ally – Aboriginal servicemen and ‘The Peace’ Meggie A Conspicuous Absence – commemorating 1918 in Hutchinson Australia’s official war paintings

2019 23 February AGM, and Brisbane: Spanish Flu AGM, Mayne Medical Building, Helen Smith, Origins of the epidemic and its impact on Brisbane Pandemic 1919 seminar and Herston Road, Herston Matthew Wengert book launch Joy Wilson Nursing during the Spanish Flu pandemic and background on museum displays Launch of City in Masks: How Brisbane Fought the Spanish Flu Cliff Pollard Community response and professional response to the (chair), Matthew epidemic Wengert, Helen Smith Q&A panel What will Brisbane’s response be to the next pandemic 18 May House Histories Seminar State Library of Caylie Jeffries Under the Lino Queensland Marianne Taylor “Skeletons in the Closet”: scandalous and unexpected stories discovered whilst reseaching Brisbane homes Carmel Black Anzac Cottages Helen Bennett Modernity in suburbia: Brisbane houses in the 1920s and 1930s Stephanie Ryan The Corley Explorer and resources at the State Library for house history research Barry Shaw Launch of Commerce, Construction and Controversy 48 Date Title Activity Venue Speakers Papers BHG Pubn 18 May (cont.) Claire Stewart Queensland heritage Annabel Lloyd Researching houses

20 July Stephens Shire Heritage Tour Bus tour From Queen Alexandra (Ron Baker) (Tour of Annerley, Dutton Park, Fairfield and Yeronga) Community Centre

14 September Flora – collecting, recording, Seminar and Queensland Herbarium Gordon Guymer Introduction and behind-the-scenes tour of the herbarium preserving and research venue tour Dale Arvidsson Flora from our past, flora for our future – the history of Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha Marion A treasury of trees – Sherwood Arboretum Mackenzie Bill Palmer Sherwood’s illustrious history in biological control Judith McKay Ellis Rowan: a flower-hunter in Queensland Darryn Schneider Ernest Smith, a field naturalist Janet Spillman The Bailey dynasty of plant scientists

c. in collaboration with P1, etc BHG Papers series S1, etc BHG Studies series So1, etc BHG Sources series T1, etc BHG Tour Guide series Compiled by Carolyn Fitz-Gerald

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