BHG Events 1981-2017 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) 1 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 3 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 4 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