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May 2019
Australia after World War I. by Philip Castle
Australia had suffered more than 62,000 total dead and about 160,000 wounded in WWI. That the first AIF had performed remarkably well as an entirely volunteer Army, while improving the small nation’s world status, did little to relieve the tensions which built up at home. The challenges for those returned servicemen and women were bewildering once they tried to resettle in a country which was irrevocably changed forever. Also the loss and maiming of so many of Australia’s mostly fit…
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June 2019
Queensland Day Dinner and the Presentation of the J D Kerr Medal of Distinction
The Royal Historical Society of Queensland (RHSQ) and the Professional Historians Association will get together to celebrate 160 years since the State became a separate colony. The event celebrates Queen Victoria’s signing of the Letters Patent on 6 June, 1859 which was the first official step leading to Queensland becoming a separate colony. The winner of the JD Kerr Medal of Distinction for excellence in history, Queensland’s most prestigious history award, also will be announced at the dinner. Come and celebrate…
Find out more »The Rise and Fall of Land Banks in Queensland by Jon Stanford
Between 1886 and 1888, 10 land banks, a new type of bank for Queensland, were registered under the Companies Act. Their major activity was “to lay out and make roads, subdivide estates into allotments and sell same by auction or otherwise.” A leading newspaper editorialised: “No development that has taken place in Brisbane within the past three years has equalled either in rapidity or importance that of the “land bank.” Examination of the latest yearly reports found that profits made…
Find out more »July 2019
‘Town Hall, City Hall, and the old Brisbane Municipal Council’, by Denver Beanland
The topic covers the Brisbane Municipal Council, which is older than the Colony of Queensland, with its years full of great controversy over the construction of the Town Hall and then later the City Hall. The topic covers both the Town Hall and City Hall. The City Hall when constructed was called ‘The Million Pound Town Hall’. The book “Brisbane – Australia’s New World City: A history of the old Town Hall, City Hall, and the Brisbane City Council 1985…
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