James Brunton Stephens was regarded, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as one…
With reports of cyclone Ita threatening the North Queensland coast this week I have been…
September is here again and International Talk Like a Pirate day is almost upon us.…
Rosa Praed (1851-1935) was one of early Queensland's most important writers. She was a member…
Last month State Library hosted a fascinating symposium on Navigating our business history. Generally sources…
Muses Magazine only lasted for 14 issues, but from November 1927 to January 1929…
On 18 July the State Library of Queensland and the Department of Environment and Heritage…
In the first decades of the 20th century, as in the 21st, miners were digging…
In this series of extracts from Queensland fiction dealing with floods, coinciding with our Floodlines…
To coincide with the Library's Floodlines exhibition I have been exploring literary responses to past…
During our Floodlines exhibition I have been exploring Queensland floods as represented in novels published…
Continuing our series of literary responses to Brisbane’s floods of the past, in conjunction with…