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Discovering Your Local History - Put On Your White Gloves

Ruth Gardiner from John Oxley Library, and Saadia Thomson Dwyer from Queensland State Archives, will present a range of treasures from their collections that relate to the Moreton Bay region. 

Participants will have the opportunity to closely view the items on display.

The original Whiteside Diaries will also be on display at this event.

Caboolture Library 07 5433 2000
Redcliffe Library 07 3283 0311

Dates / Times
Caboolture Library, 15 February 2012, 9.30am - 12.30pm
Redcliffe Library, 29 February 2012, 9.30am- 12.30pm

Cost: Free
Bookings: Bookings for this event are recommended.

Podcast: Brisbane floods with Helen Gregory

Join Queensland historian Helen Gregory for an intriguing conversation about floods in Brisbane and learn more about why history matters.  Hear about the frequency of floods, the warnings, heroes, scandals, generosity, despair, hope and renewal.  How have the significant floods of 1893 and 1974 been remembered and what has been forgotten? What legacy will 2011 leave?

You can find the audio file to this talk at:

 http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/find/webcasts/out_of_the_port

Podcast: The changing face of wartime correspondence

Listen to ex-military personnel and guests as they take you on a journey through the years, back to a time where it was simpler to preserve the physical evidence of wartime, love and relationships and examine the difficulties of doing the same in our 21st century, technology driven lives.

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/find/webcasts/lovewar

Beneath the veneer - Furnishing Queensland interiors in the late 19th century

Beneath the veneer - Furnishing Queensland interiors in the late 19th century

Colonial Australians were known for their staunch loyalty to British goods and fashions for furnishing their homes. As Federation approached, local manufacturers argued for a new nationalist loyalty exhorting consumersto ‘buy local’. Using Brisbane case studies, Tracey Avery will focus on the complex issues of politics, climate, labour and economics that impacted on the furnishing choices of Queenslanders of the era.

Tracey is Director, Strategy and Policy at Heritage Victoria, a Victorian State Government agency within the Department of Planning and Community Development. She was a Co-Project and Curatorial Manager, James Cook Museum, Cooktown for the National Trust of Queensland and was Cultural Heritage Manager at the National Trust of Australia (Victoria).

A PhD candidate in Architecture at the University of Melbourne, she has published on interior and object design history, most recently a chapter in the Design History Reader (Berg, 2010).

Date: Wed 21 Sep

Time:12.30pm

Where: Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library of Queensland, South Bank

Free, no bookings required (bring your lunch)

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on/calevents/general/talks/port/furnishing

Indigenous Genealogy Workshop

Indigenous Genealogy Workshop

Come to the Deception Bay Library and explore your family history,
this event will be lead by Tania Schafer from the State Library of Queensland.

Learn all the handy hints and the best websites to conduct your research, and enjoy a lovely morning tea as well!

Dates / Times
Deception Bay Library,
11 August 2011, 10.00am

Cost free

Bookings
Bookings for this event are required.

Contact
Deception Bay Library (07) 3203 1094
DeceptionBay.library@moretonbay.qld.gov.au

Talk @ SLQ: Ernie Lane: The making of a Queensland Rebel

In the pioneering years of the Queensland labour movement, Ernest Henry Lane was one of the most fiery firebrands of them all. Yet he was shipped to Brisbane in 1884 as a model immigrant, an industrious young man who carried the convictions of a childhood steeped in loyalty to Queen and empire. So what went wrong? In this talk, John Oxley Library Fellow Dr Jeff Rickertt delves into the turbulent world of colonial labour politics to explain the making of Ernie Lane as one of the nation’s most resolute rebels.

Dr Rickertt is a Brisbane historian with an abiding interest in the State’s rebels and radicals. He was a contributor to and assistant editor of Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History and is co-editor of the Queensland Journal of Labour History. As the 2010 John Oxley Library Fellow, a Queensland Library Foundation initiative, Dr Rickertt is working on a political biography of Ernest Henry Lane.

When: Wednesday 20 July - 12:30pm
Venue: State Library of Queensland, slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Cost: Free
No bookings required.

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on/calevents/general/talks/port/rickertt

Presented in partnership with the Department of Environment and Resource Management Heritage Branch.

Seminar: Displaced persons - May 2011

The National Archives of Australia, Brisbane Office will be holding a free seminar on Displaced Persons.  This seminar will look at the history and consequences of mass movement of displaced people in the world and the changes they brought to Australia.  After World War II, Australia's intake of displaced (stateless) persons was second only to the United States of America.  Find out about their stories and the programs that supported them to make Australia home.

The seminar will be held:

National Archives of Australia16 Corporate DriveCANNON HILL  QLD  4170

Wedneday 18th May & Saturday 21st May 2011

Starting at 10am and runs for approximately one hour and includes a complimentory morning tea.

For bookings:

Phone: 07-32494 226

or email: gregory.cope@naa.gov.au

Talk @ SLQ: Post adoption assistance

Post adoption assistance

New legislation provides options for adoptees and biological parents to access more information. Find out how post adoption service groups and the State Library of Queensland can assist you. Groups including Adoption Services Queensland, Post Adoption Support Queensland, Linkup, Salvation Army  and Jigsaw will explain their services.

When: Fri 29 Apr, 10am-12 noon

Where: State Library of Queensland, slq Auditorium 2 , level 2

Tickets: $15.50 (morning tea included)Bookings through qtix - 136 246 or http://www.qtix.com.au/event/SLQ_Post_Adoption_Assistance_11.aspx

 Photo: Construction work at St. Vincent's Orphanage, Nudgee, 1906

Talk @ SLQ: Wrecked - A survey of shipwreck sites on the Queensland coast

Free talk at the State Library of Queensland

Wrecked - A survey of shipwreck sites on the Queensland coast, with Paddy Waterson - 20 April

Throughout history, Queensland’s treacherous coastline has claimed nearly 1,400 vessels. The maritime industry is at the heart of Queensland’s and Australia’s historic development and shipping was the principal mode of transport for goods and people until well into the 20th Century.The high volume of sea trade coupled with the treacherous nature of our coastline resulted in many vessels being lost or abandoned. Today, these shipwrecks continue to attract attention, both from a historical and a tourism viewpoint. Yet, despite its profile there is much we do not know about our maritime heritage.  The Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) is conducting a five year survey of Queensland’s historic shipwrecks to draw together all the available information, establishing a more complete picture of where the wrecks are and what they can tell us. Join Paddy Waterson, Queensland’s appointed historical shipwreck practitioner, as he brings some of these stories to the surface.Paddy is a Principal Heritage Officer with the Heritage Branch, DERM, and has worked throughout Queensland, especially in the Far North, Wide Bay/Burnett and South-Eastern Districts. Initially trained as a general archaeologist/historian, Paddy has since completed postgraduate qualifications in forensic osteology and maritime archaeology.When: Wed 20 Apr, 12.30pmWhere: State Library of Queensland, slq Auditorium 2, level 2 (bring your lunch)Tickets: Free, no bookings required

Picture: Drawing of the SS Quetta in the Torres Strait at 9.15 and 9.18 pm on February 28th 1890. The first drawing shows the Quetta before foundering and the second shows the shipwreck.

Seminar: Cultural icons of South Brisbane

Seminar

Brisbane History Group with The Griffith Film School, Queensland College of Art  presentCULTURAL ICONS OF SOUTH BRISBANEincluding tours of old South Brisbane Municipal Chambers and LibrarySaturday 16 April 2011At the Griffith Film School, intersection of Stanley, Vulture & Dock Streets, South Brisbane

For further information consult the Brisbane History Group website:

http://www.brisbanehistory.asn.au/next_event.html

Photo: Intersection of Vulture and Stanley Streets, South Brisbane, ca. 1907

Seminar: ArchivesSearch Catalogue - 12.04.11, 10:00am

This seminar provides researchers with an introduction to our searchable catalogue ArchivesSearch which can be accessed online or in the Public Search Room at Queensland State Archives.

Entry is free. Tea and coffee available following the seminar. To book, telephone 07 3131 7777.

 

Time: 10:00am

Date: Tue 12th Apr, 2011

Location: Queensland State Archives Lecture Theatre 2

My address is: 435 Compton Road Runcorn QLD 4113 info@archives.qld.gov.au

My website is: http://www.archives.qld.gov.au

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Tagged: learning sessions, Finding aids, Event Queensland State Archives, Digitized collections, seminar

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Harmony Day Seminar - Queensland State Archives - 21.03.11, 10:00am

Celebrate Harmony Day and the importance of multiculturalism in Queensland’s history. Join us for morning tea and a seminar focussing on records relating to Italians from Queensland State Archives’ collection. Time: 10am - 12pm.

This year our featured cultural community is the Italians.

Entry is free. To book, telephone 07 3131 7777.

 

Time: 10:00am

Date: Mon 21st Mar, 2011

Location: 435 Compton Rd, Runcorn

My address is: 435 Compton Road Runcorn QLD 4113 info@archives.qld.gov.au

My website is: http://www.archives.qld.gov.au

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Tagged: Italians, Harmony Day, seminar

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The Heritage Talks: A7V Mephisto

Mephisto, the last surviving A7V German First World War tank, was captured by the Australians and is now housed at the Queensland Museum.

Join Jeff Hopkins-Wiese and Greg Czechura from Queensland Museum to discover more about this tank.Morning tea included. Bookings are essential for catering purposes.Date: 09 March 2011Time: 10.00am - 11.30amLocation: Pine Rivers Heritage Museum - Old Petrie Town, Dayboro Road, WhitesideCost: FREEContact: Marie TrebilcoPine Rivers Heritage MuseumPh: (07) 3285 7213museum.pinerivers@moretonbay.qld.gov.auMore Informationwww.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/pinerivers-museum Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tank-Mephisto-Queensland-Museum.jpg

 

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Tagged: war, tanks, Qld Museum, WW1, seminar, Pine Rivers Museum, Military, Heritage Museum Pine Rivers, German, army

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Tasty Treasures - records of food and drink in the National Archives

The National Archives of Australia at Cannon Hill, Brisbsane is holding a free public seminar on Wednesday 16 and Saturday 19th February 2011.

The Seminar is about the history of food and drink in Australia and Queensland.  By searching our records, we have made some gastronomical discoveries.  The seminar will look at the types of food we once cooked, eary cafe and resturants and the history of wine and much more, even how to read a tea cup!

It is an amazing journey.  The seminars are free and morning tea will be supplied.

Seminars start at 10am and run for approximately for one hours.

Location:  National Archives of Australia, 16 Corporate Drive, Cannon Hill  Qld  4170   (close to Cannon Hill Railway Station, Cleveland Line)

Bookings: Phone: 3249 4226

 

Categories: Queensland

Tagged: cafe, tea, NAA, NATIONAL ARCHIVES, seminar, drink, food, wine, History, cook, cooking, meals

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Genealogical Society of Qld - Education classes

A list of the education classes and sessions being held by the Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ)

Advance your knowledge of family history

Download notice as pdf file

My email is: ua.moc.tensutpo@1qsg

My address is: 38 Fisher Street, East Brisbane

My phone number is: 07 38915085

My website is: http://www.gsq.org.au/

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Tagged: convicts, courses, Did you know, education, email, event, family, Family History, Finding aids, Genealogical Society of Qld, genealogy, German, German research, Google, GSQ, hands on computer course, History, house history, immigrants, immigration, indexes, info guides, learning sessions, Maps, migrants, migration, seminar, resources, shipping, records, photos, newspapers, names

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Along the track - Railway Records in the National Archives

The National Archives of Australia at Cannon Hill is holding a free seminar on railway related records held at the Archives.

The bulk of material relates to the formation and operation of the Commonwealth railways in Australia which included South Australia and Tasmania.

Discover the historical background of the development of railways in Australia and the role that the Commonwealth Government has played in all States.

To be held on Wednesday 17 November and again on Saturday 20 November , starting at 10am and running for about an hour.  A compilmentary morning tea will be provided.

National Archives of Australia16 Corporate DriveCANNON HILL  QLD  4170 

For bookings phone: 32494226

Categories: Archives, Queensland

Tagged: NAA, national, talks, territory, victoria, NSW, south, tasmania, australia, carriages, engines, locomotives, diesel, northern, ghan, commonwealth, trains, train, railways, railway, free, talk, seminar

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Seminar - The Home Front - 17.04.10, 10:00am

Poster - Grow your vegetables

Dig for Victory!  Seminar to be held at the National Archives of Australia about the 'Home Front' on Saturday 17th & Wednesday 21st April.  Free to attend. 

National Archives of Australia16 Corporate Drive,CANNON HILL  QLD  4170

Phone: 3249-4224

 

Time: 10:00am

Date: Sat 17th Apr, 2010

Location: National Archives

Categories: Archives, Brisbane

Tagged: WWII, NAA event, war, NAA, event, home, seminar, records, wartime

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Photographic Conservation Workshop & Clinic

Photographic Conservation Workshop & ClinicDate:  Wednesday 15 SeptemberTime: 10:15am to 3pmVenue:  Pine Rivers Heritage Museum, Old Petrie Town, Dayboro Rd, WhitesideCost:  Free – lunch will be providedRSVP:  Limited places available.  Bookings are essential - Phone 3285 7213 by Friday 10 Sep.   Photographs are important pieces of history, whether they are a museum, archive or family treasure. Ask anyone what’s the first thing they would reach for in the event of a fire and it’s invariably the same response: the family photos. Likewise in a collecting institution the photographs are generally one of the most valued and popular parts of the collection. But how do you preserve these photos?  How can you display these photos without damaging them?  Is digitisation the best way forward for all photographs?On Wednesday 15th September, the Pine Rivers Heritage Museum will be hosting an all-day photographic conservation workshop & clinic. The workshop, presented by a professional conservator from the National Archives of Australia, will include information on how to store, handle and display the various types of photographs found in both institutional and family collections. The workshop will cover colour and black and white prints, as well as negatives, slides and photograph albums.Advice will also be given on digitising historical photographs including issues to consider, with the focus on how best to digitally copy and preserve your photographs.The afternoon will be given over to a clinic where attendees will be encouraged to bring along their own historic photographs for discussion and advice.  Don’t miss this opportunity!

Queensland State Archives ArchivesSearch Seminar - 20.07.10, 10:00am

Discover how to get the best out of ArchivesSearch, the Queensland State Archives’ online catalogue. This seminar will teach you more advanced techniques to locate records of interest and will give useful tips for finding what you want.

Entry is free. Tea and coffee available following the seminar. To book telephone                 07 3131 7777

 

Time: 10:00am

Date: Tue 20th Jul, 2010

Location: Queensland State Archives Lecture Theatre 2

Categories: Archives, Queensland

Tagged: History, family, seminar, State Archives

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Queensland State Archives Getting Started Seminar - 15.06.10, 10:00am

Learn about the Queensland State Archives collection and how best to find the information you are seeking. This seminar, presented by one of our experienced Reference Archivists, will provide you with the basis you need to start your research at QSA. The seminar includes morning tea and a short tour.

Entry is free. To book telephone                07 3131 7777             

 

Time: 10:00am

Date: Tue 15th Jun, 2010

Location: Queensland State Archives Lecture Theatre 2

My website is: http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/

Categories: Archives, Queensland

Tagged: seminar, History, family, event

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Queensland Family & Local History Fair - 23.05.10, 9:00am

HQ's 7th Biennial Family and Local History Fair will be held at the DONALD SIMPSON CENTRE 172 Bloomfield Street Cleveland on Sunday 23rd May, 2010 commencing at 9am.

This event provides an oportunity for Family and Local histororians to meet some of the many Societies and groups established to cater for their hobby. In addition there will be seminars and help desks. Refreshments will be available.

Entry fee is $10.00 per person or $8.00 with discount voucher available by downloading from the HQ website.

Time: 9:00am

Date: Sun 23rd May, 2010

Location: Cleveland

My address is: History Queensland Inc PO Box 399 Mt Gravatt QLD 4122

My website is: http://www.historyqueensland.org.au

The Heritage Talks: The Dayboro Story

You may have stopped for a coffee in the charming village of Dayboro, but do you know its fascinating history?

Carmel Bond, president of the Dayboro Historical Society, will let you know all the secrets from the town's history, it's creation and evolution and the pioneering families of the Dayboro district.

Morning tea included.

Date: 12 May 2010Time: 10.00am - 11.30amLocation: Pine Rivers Heritage Museum Old Petrie Town Dayboro Road Whiteside QLD 4503Cost: Free

ContactMarie LynchPine Rivers Heritage MuseumPh: (07) 3285 7213More Information    * www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/pinerivers - museum

This talk combines with an exhibit on Dayboro: The First 100 Years, from 26 March 2010 - 16 May 2010.

Pine Rivers Heritage Museum and the Dayboro Historical Society are working together to tell the story of the Dayboro area and community.

 

 

 

 

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Tagged: Dayboro, talks, seminar

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How to conduct successful oral histories

Bob Mitchell – Mr Memory Man – will demonstrate his oral history methods at Redcliffe Library, Monday 26 April, 10.00 to 11.30

In this session participants will gain an insight into preparing questions, conducting an interview and the use of techniques such as mind mapping.

Examining the use of the five senses, and his famous “Box of Tricks”, Bob Mitchell will examine the reliability of memory and look at sorting fact from fiction.

Other topics covered include privacy and copyright issues, post-interview tasks such as logging and transcribing and ideas on what to do with the completed interview.

Bob is a historian and a long standing member of the Oral History Association of Australia.  He interviews older folk recording their life stories on audio CDs as keepsakes and is an expert in reminiscence and story telling.

This session with Bob will cover

• Tips about how to ask questions at an interview
• What questions to ask
• Types of interviewees you may encounter
• Reliability of memory
• Memory aids
• Equipment

Free but Bookings essential – Phone 3283 0249

Queensland State Archives Morning Tea with Public Access - 27.04.10, 10:00am

Come and join Public Access staff for an informal morning tea. Spend time with, ask questions, and share your QSA experiences with fellow researchers. 

Entry is free. To book telephone    07 3131 7777       

Time: 10:00am

Date: Tue 27th Apr, 2010

Location: Queensland State Archives Lecture Theatre 2

Seminar: The Home Front, World War II - 17.04.10, 11:00am

The National Archives of Australia is holding a seminar on 17 April & 21 April 2010 on 'The Home Front - WWII'

It will be held from 10am to 11am.  Free to attend, bookings: 32494226.

National Archives of Australia16 Corporate DriveCANNON HILL  QLD  4170

Time: 11:00am

Date: Sat 17th Apr, 2010

Location: National Archives of Australia, 16 Corporate Drive, Cannon Hill Qld 4170

Harmony Day Seminar at Queensland State archives - 19.03.10, 10:00am

Celebrate Harmony Day and the importance of multiculturalism in Queensland's history. Join us for morning tea and a seminar focussing on records relating to Russians from the collection of the Queensland State Archives.

Entry is free. To book telephone     07 3131 7777

Time: 10:00am

Date: Fri 19th Mar, 2010

Location: Queensland State Archives Lecture Theatre 2