The Fryer Library has recently received a significant and generous donation
from LeftPress of footage filmed in the 1982 protests for Aboriginal Land
Rights, coinciding with the thirtieth anniversary of these historic events.
The website includes the complete text of campaign speeches from 1901-2010.
The speeches are organised chronologically for browsing and are keyword
searchable. Context is provided by short biographical pieces and summaries of
election results.
While most of our iconic images of adventurous archaeologists are born from
page or screen (perhaps, Cairo Jim, Indiana Jones, or Murder in
Mesopotamia?) this September, Fryer's treasure of
the month explores the life of John Henry Iliffe - a noted British
Archaeologist and the first curator of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum -
whose life, archaeological work, and contribution to the Antiquities collection
at UQ are captured in his papers…<
Frank Moorhouse won the Fiction category of the Queensland Literary
Awards last night for his book Cold light, the final
in his Palais de Nations trilogy. In accepting the prize, Mr
Moorhouse said:
By viewing the Fryer Library
community on UQ's institutional repository UQ eSpace, you can browse a selection
of the Fryer's digitized collections. Currently, these include:
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