A quick reminder that Fryer Library is closed on Monday, October 7 2013, for the Labour Day Public holiday. You can check the opening hours for all UQ Libraries online.

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.

On July 25, author and journalist Matthew Condon sat down in conversation with HPRC's Dr Geoff Ginn for a discussion about his latest book, Three crooked kings, which follows the career of former police commissioner Terry Lewis, exposing the story of how Queensland society was shaped by almost half a century of corruption.

Arthur Upfield, known as Australia's first detective novelist, was the subject of discussion at a Friends of Fryer event on May 14.

Next Tuesday's Friends of Fryer Event is "Investigating Arthur Upfield": a panel discussion about Upfield, the first Australian professional writer of detective novels. Panellist and co-editor, Kees de Hoog, blogs about how his interest in Upfield developed...

My interest in Arthur Upfield really began in the 1960s when I was a teenager. I remember reading quite a few Bony novels over that time.

An almost capacity crowd attended the first Friends of Fryer event for 2013, "Antarctica: Bravery in the landscape" last week.

The panel discussion, hosted in conjunction with the UQ Art Museum, focused on the artwork of Linde Ivimey. In particular, her sculptures of ice warrior figures, which are a striking feature of the Art Museum's current exhibition "If Pain Persists… Linde Ivimey Sculpture".

Hi All,

The 2012 Friends of Fryer Christmas event struck a high note, with over fifty guests attending to hear Professor Peter Roennfeldt speak about his new book Northern Lyrebird: The contribution to Queensland's Music by its Conservatorium 1957-2007.

Last Friday the University of Queensland formally accepted a gift of over $3million from the T.B. Sailors', Soldiers' & Airmen's Association of Queensland. The recently disbanded Association has donated its assets to UQ's Centre for Military and Veterans' Health for ongoing research of tuberculosis, and the Association's historical records are now part of the Fryer Library collection. The records have been catalogued as a lasting legacy of the organisation's contribution to supporting veterans with TB.