In this blog – Part One and Part Two, we feature the 1970 tour of…
Among State Library of Queensland's extensive collections of old photographs, slides, diaries, letters and films,…
Guest blogger: Ruth Cohen. George Goddard, The Sun (Sydney, NSW) 25 August 1947, p.5 State…
Townsville Harbour, ca 1915 (Townsville Museum) A recent trip to Townsville enabled the Q ANZAC…
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of…
Panoramic photographs are among the most powerful and evocative of historical images, their broad sweep…
In this post, Madonna Grehan, guest blogger and John Oxley Library Fellow for 2015, explains…
There are so many chapters in the story of the Baxter family that it is…
On February 15, 1866, Townsville was declared a municipality by Queensland Governor Sir George Ferguson…
While October 5 is annually recognised internationally as World Teachers' Day, Queenslanders celebrate this day…
State Library recently digitised the 1918 Policy Speech of Thomas Joseph Ryan, Premier of Queensland…
When we think of Japanese air-raids on Australia during World War II we immediately think…