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Bygone Brisbane: Its Robin Dods Brisbane History, Your Heritage, Heritage Tour, by Paul by Rod Fisher, 403 Sayer, 28 pages, 2013 pages, 2016. ($30 / ($5) $25 BHG members) Examines the Contains chapters on architectural legacy of Brisbane’s Aboriginal Robin Dods, one of history, Yeronga and Brisbane’s best-known Lang Parks, Heritage and admired architects, buildings and much offering a walking tour more. Richly illustrated. and a driving tour of the city and the suburbs. Illustrated.

Brisbane Diseased: Brisbane: Schemes and Contagions, Cures and Dreams, edited by Drs Controversy, edited by Jennifer Harrison and Dr Alana Piper, 349 Barry Shaw, 202 pages, pages, 2016, ($20 / 2014 ($20) Examines $15 BHG members) schemes to select Chapters ranging from ‘proper’ immigrants, Plague, Spanish flu, dreams of what Brisbane Polio, Alcoholism and might become, VD, to medical fraud, missionaries, bounty quackery and hysteria. Illustrated. hunters and rogues. Illustrated.

Brisbane and World War Tobruk’s Easter Battle II, edited by Dr Barry 1941, by John Shaw, 280 pages, 2015, Mackenzie –Smith, 181 ($30 / $25 BHG pages, 2014, ($10) members) This book takes a look at Looks at a range of this battle from a WW2 activities in Brisbane perspective Brisbane including SPECIAL OFFER: Brisbane secret uses of the river, and World War II, and ‘Torpedo Hill’, secrets at Tobruk’s Easter Battle Eagle Farm, Women in 1941 ($35 / $30 BHG the military, anti-submarine defence, etc. members) for the pair. Illustrated.

The Best of Colonial Tom Hurstbourne or a Brisbane, by Dr Rod Squatter’s Life, by John Fisher, 396 pages, Claverling Wood, (edited 2012, ($30 / $25 BHG by G Benjamin and G members) Grant) 305 pages, 2010 Organised into chapters ($10) about ‘occupation’, This is the first novel to ‘alienation’, ‘Separation’, have been written in personation’ and Queensland in 1865, ‘location’ in Brisbane. although not published Illustrated. until 2010.

Fernvale or the Brisbane: People and Queensland Squatter, Places of Ashgrove, by Colin Munro edited by Dr Barry (abridged by Dr Rod Shaw, 348 pages, Fisher) 345 pages, 2010 ($15) 1862 & 2011, ($10) Traces Ashgrove from This is the first novel pre-settlement set in and about through farming and Queensland, originally rural suburb to modern published in London in inner city living. It 1862. It affords colourful and dramatic explores some of the insights into life in Brisbane, and Queensland, key families, Harding of St Johns Wood, Little, in the 1860s. etc. Illustrated. The Making of a Surveying Success: The Metropolis: Brisbane Hume family in Colonial 1823-1925, by Dr John Queensland, by Dr Laverty, 245 pages, Hilary Davies, 246 2009 ($10) pages, 2011, ($10) Explores how an early The remarkable story of convict settlement grew Walter and Katie Hume, into a small town, then a and family, who really city competing with set the stage for the other cities such as development of a South Brisbane, and prosperous middle class in Brisbane. Excellent triumphed by amalgamating all competition as biography which tells a much wider social the largest (in area) city in . story. Illustrated. Illustrated. Boosting Brisbane: Brisbane: Houses, Imprinting the Colonial Gardens, Suburbs and Capital of Queensland, Congregations, edited by Dr Rod Fisher, 298 by Dr Rod Fisher, 324 pages, 2009 ($5) pages, 2011 ($15) “Being a gauche little Covers houses, outpost of empire, churches and gardens Brisbane needed all the across suburbs ranging help”. This book shows from Annerley to examples of people Stafford, from New ‘Boosting’ Brisbane into Farm to Grange. a respectable state Illustrated. capital. Illustrated

Brisbane: Water, Power The Dutch Houses of and Industry, edited by Coopers Plains: A Carolyn Fitz-Gerald, 174 Postwar Housing debacle pages, 2008 ($10) at Brisbane, by Alfons Examines the Vernooy, 120 pages, technology and politics 2004 ($5) of the development of Examines a little-known, water resources, steam post-war public housing power, electricity, gas scheme which had and public transport. unintended Illustrated. consequences. Illustrated.

The Scottish Presence Brisbane: at Moreton Bay1837- Matters, edited by Dr 59, by John Mackenzie- Murray Johnson, 148 Smith, 206 pages, pages, 2002, ($10) 2005, ($5) Examines early Moreton Describes the early Bay lighthouses, Scottish settlers such indigenous residents, as Mackenzie, Petrie early farming, fishing and Lang, development and other industries, as of suburbs such as well as institutions such Kangaroo Point, and the infamous ‘Kilcoy as the leper colony and poisonings’. Illustrated prison. Illustrated.

Bardon Heritage Tour, Brisbane: Relaxation, by Dr Barry Shaw, 28 Recreation and Rock ‘n’ pages ($2) Roll – Popular Culture A walking and driving 1890-1990, edited by tour of a fascinating Dr Barry Shaw, 154 inner Brisbane suburb. pages, 2001, ($5) Illustrated Articles about sport, dancing, art, nightlife, literature, travel, drinking and carousing – and Rock ‘n’ Roll. Illustrated Johnny Cassim: Coolie, Brisbane: Squatters, Convict, Catechumen Settlers and Surveyors, Colonial Entrepreneur edited by Drs Rod Fisher 1814-1884, by Patrick and Jennifer Harrison, Tynan, 102 pages, 159 pages, 2000, 2005 ($5) ($10) Cassim was a Muslim Covers why Brisbane is convict, sent to Van where it is and why it’s Diemen’s Land, then laid out as it is, its Moreton Bay. For many founding families, as years he ran a hotel well as the political and mixed with all classes of society. tensions between rural Illustrated and urban interests. Illustrated.

Our Federation: Moreton Bay in the Brisbane Through the News 1841-1860: A News 1901, edited by Select Subject Index, by Dr Katherine McConnel, Dr Rod Fisher and John 246 pages, 2002 ($2) Schiavo, 180 pages, Examines how others 2000 ($5) saw the small city of An exhaustive listing of Brisbane - and how news items about early Brisbanites saw their Brisbane indexed under own thriving city in ‘place’, ‘subject’ and 1901. A detailed ‘persons’. examination of Brisbane when Australia A wonderful aid to people interested in early became a nation. Illustrated. Brisbane.

Our Federation 1901: Brisbane Heritage Trail, Stombuco Heritage edited by Dr Rod Fisher Tour, by Caroline Smith et al, 107 pages, 2001 and Dr Rod Fisher, 44 ($2) pages, 1999 ($5) A detailed walking tour Andrea Stombuco of central Brisbane (1820-1907) was one with all the sites of the most creative significant to architects in 19th Federation, as well as a century Brisbane and drive through older has left a rich legacy suburbs. Illustrated with detailed maps. ranging from iconic Petrie Terrace houses Our Federation: and St Joseph Christian Brothers College to Brisbane: Patriotism, St Patrick’s Church and all Hallows Convent Passion and Protest, School. Illustrated. edited by Dr Barry Shaw, 109 pages, 2001 ($2) Stombuco: The Building Examines how of Brisbane in the 19th Federation came about Century, by Piero Giorgi, in Brisbane, key players 136 pages, 1998 ($10) and events, and the Andrea Stombuco was an repercussions. important Brisbane Illustrated architect between 1875 and 1890 who has left a Enoggera District legacy of wonderful, Heritage Trail, by iconic buildings. This book Barbara Gunn and explores the man as well Maureen Shannon, 32 as his work. Illustrated. pages ($2) Walking or driving tour, with maps. Illustrated

The Mitchie Picture The Hands that made the Show, by Kevin Olivieri, Cement, by Judith 35 pages, 2000 ($2) Anderson, 32 pages ($5) This tells the story of A history of the Darra the picture theatre that Cement Plant, the area, opened in 1916 in and of those who worked Mitchelton, and of the there. Illustrated. Nugent family who owned and operated it. Illustrated.

Brisbane: People, Places The River Very Beautiful, and Progress, edited by by Dr John Steele, 26 Drs Rod Fisher and Barry pages, 1998, ($2) Shaw, 174 pages, 1995 This traces and reveals ($2) the story of the first Chapters about suburbs three white people to be including Woolloongabba, in Brisbane, Thomas Coorparoo, Kedron, Pamphlet, John Finnegan Bulimba, Norman Park and and John Uniacke, in about key political 1823. Much of the story families such as Nicklin, is in their own words. Lutwyche and King. Illustrated.

Brisbane: Cemeteries as St Lucia campus Sources, edited by Drs Heritage Tour, by Sylvia Rod Fisher and Barry Bannah, 32 pages, Shaw, 141 pages, 1994, 1998 ($2) ($5) A walking tour of Examines Brisbane Brisbane’s oldest cemeteries and university. Illustrated associated monumental

works and morticians.

Illustrated.

Brisbane: Corridors of Brisbane: The Ethnic Power, edited by Dr Presence since the Barry Shaw, 214 pages, 1850s, edited by Drs Rod 1997 ($5) Fisher and Barry Shaw, With chapters about 132 pages, 1993 ($2) Brisbane’s Town/City Examines Italian, Welsh, Halls, Government Jewish, German and Greek House, Parliament, migrants, as well as alien Constitution, Women presences such as Nazis. in/out of power, etc. Illustrated. Authors include Peter

Beattie, Ross Fitzgerald and John Laverty.

Illustrated.

Queensland Architects of the 19th Century: A Brisbane’s Commercial Biographical Heritage 1900-1940, by Dictionary, by Helen Bennett et al, 72 Drs Donald pages, 2002, ($2) Watson and Three separate tours of Judith McKay, Brisbane’s CBD, ‘Retail’, 225 pages, ‘Warehouse/Light 1994, and Index, industry’ and compiled by Dr ‘Financial/Office’, with Judith Nissen specific street directions. ($20 for both) Illustrated with detailed Contains a detailed introduction to 19th maps. century Brisbane Architects, architecture, the detailed descriptions running from Addison to Zouch. Indexed. Illustrated.

Between Kedron Brook and Taylor Range: Historical aspects of Seven Suburbs, by Maureen Shannon and Barbara Gunn, 36 pages, 2004 ($2). Examines the farming, military, recreation and many other uses of this area, and plots the development of the modern suburbs. Illustrated. Diggles Down Under: Brisbane via from Merseyside 1855-80, by Dr Rod Fisher, 2003 ($10) This boxed set includes a cd, 106 page ‘Manual of cd and book’, 330 page ‘History book of the cd’ and 254 page ‘Library Book of the cd’. “Birds and butterflies, art and science, music and religion – this man did it all. He was born at the port of Liverpool in 1817. In his thirties he brought family and skills to Sydney and then Brisbane in 1855. In colonial Brisbane Timeline: From Captain Cook to City outpost he made his mark but died in 1880 a Cat, by Dr Rod Fisher et al, 394 pages, 1999 disappointed man. This is the Triumph and ($10) Tragedy of Silvester Diggles.” He was an This is an exhaustive listing of events amazing artist, musician, scientist and occurring in Brisbane and environs since humanist. Illustrated. 1770, listed under ‘General’, ‘Social’, ‘Cultural’ and ‘Environmental’. A valuable guide to anyone interested in Brisbane’s history. Spring Hill Heritage Tour, Valley by Dr Rod Fisher, 24 1841-50: Pioneer pages, 1993 ($2) Observations and A walking tour of one of Reminiscences, 95 pages, Brisbane’s oldest suburbs. 1991, ($5) Illustrated This anthology, mostly based on original texts, helps us understand the opening up of the Brisbane River Valley and

the key actors. Illustrated.

Bald Hills Heritage Tour, Eastern Suburbs by Dr Barry Shaw, 28 Placenames Drive, by Drs pages, 1993 ($5) Rod Fisher and Jennifer Walking or driving tour, Harrison, 20 pages, 1990 descriptions of buildings ($2) and streets. Illustrated This tour explores and

explains how places came

to be named in inner southeast Brisbane. Illustrated

Colonial George and Brisbane: Archives and William Street Heritage Approaches II, 184 Tour, by Dr Rod Fisher, pages, 1988, ($5) 22 pages, 1991 ($2) Describes how to approach and make the Walking tour. Illustrated most out of a wide range of archives to help with research. Illustrated.

Brisbane Butterflies and In the Capacity of a Beetles: The Work of Surgeon, by John Pearn, Amelie Dietrich, Millais 226 pages, 1988, ($5) Culpin and Alfred Jefferis This biography of Walter Turner, by Drs Ray Scott (1787-1854), the Summer and John first person to act ‘in the Thearle, 1989, 157 capacity of a surgeon’ in pages ($2) what is now Brisbane. Looks at the above three This book offers insights naturalists, examines into both the founding of through their own Brisbane as well as early records how they lived and worked, and th 19 century medical care here. Illustrated offers insights into science in 19th century Brisbane. Illustrated.

Brisbane: People, Places Brisbane: Archives and and Pageantry, 222 Approaches I, 95 pages, pages, 1987 ($5) 1983 ($5) Explores Brisbane Describes how to people such as the approach and make the Toohey, Moffat, and most out of a wide McConnel families, range of archives to places and events such help with research. as the first steamship Illustrated. service to Sydney, and pageantry such as the Princess Theatre, South Brisbane. Illustrated.