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Collection spotlight: Brisbane City Hall

Brisbane City Hall is now open again, after three years of restoration work. The Museum of Brisbane has opened several new exhibitions on Level 3 of the building, and guided tours and rides to the top of the clock tower are once again possible.

Celebrating International Women's Day: March 1945 Queenslands First Female Juror

From the State Library of Queensland Blog

On 1 March 1945 Queensland's first female juror was empanelled at Brisbane's Supreme Court. Nellie Bishop, a housewife from Kelvin Grove who had never before been inside a courtroom, was thrust into the media spotlight. "I was scared stiff" she told a reporter from The Courier Mail

View a selection of Fryer collections online

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:

School history Queensland State Archives

Queensland State Archives holds many resources within its collection to assist researchers interested in school history:

• locating their own school admission details
• organising a school reunion
• compiling information on the history of a school
• finding teacher records.

Pinning down the past

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