Join the Friends of Fryer to meet the author of Happily ever after: Celebrating Pride and prejudice and President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia (JASA), Susannah Fullerton, next Friday, 11 October, 2013.

The 2013 Fryer Award winner, Dr William Hatherell, will present the first results of his current research at an EMSAH seminar this Friday, September 20.

Dr Hatherell's research focuses on Professor JJ Stable and Associate Professor FW Robinson ('Doc Robbie'), the two leading figures in the establishment of English as a university discipline in Queensland through their pioneering work at the University of Queensland from the 1920s to the 1950s.