Your Anzac Day 2021

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Queensland Literary Awards 2021

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Deadly Threads

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Deadly Threads curator's tour

Thu 13 May (ongoing) · 11–11:30am
Join our Deadly Threads showcase curator or special guest tour guide and have a yarn about where we found all those shirts.
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Benjamin Law Brisbane Writers Festival 2021

Brisbane Writers Festival

Fri 7 May (ongoing) · 4–8pm
State Library is the home of Brisbane Writers Festival. Book now for an incredible program of writers, thinkers, dreamers, and artists.
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Game Changers in conversation with CJ Hendry

Thu 29 Apr · 6–7pm
CJ will be in a conversation with Emeritus Professor Suzi Derbyshire, a discussion that is guaranteed to be challenging, frank and inspiring.
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Say G'day

Flyer for the Say G'day initiative State Library of Queensland, in partnership with Yugambeh Museum…

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Chinese prisoners being fed under supervision outside in the Goal Yard Burketown Queensland ca October 1900

Chinese Arrested In Queensland

Guest blogger: David Huggonson Between 1873 and 1876 the Palmer River goldfield in the hinterland…

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Black and white image of a group of women at the Anzac Day observance Shrine of Remembrance Anzac Square Brisbane 1937

How Queensland Women Commemorated World War One: The Anzac Square Women’s Memorial

On the western wall of Anzac Square, beneath the cenotaph, you will see a prominent…

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A portrait of a young soldier

William Malcolm Harwood: First Casualty of the 42nd Infantry Battalion

William Malcolm Harwood enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces on 29 December 1915 in Brisbane.…

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Joanne Tapiolas started researching her project Footprints of Italian Prisoners of War in 2015

International spotlight shines on Italian prisoners of war project

Italian prisoners of War - WWII project update State Library of Queensland is thrilled to…

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Outdoor stone memorial showing plaque listing Samford District Roll of Honour

The Cash Brothers - District Honours Local Family’s WWI Service

In the suburbs north west of Brisbane lies Samford Village. Now a part of the…

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