Genealogical Society of Queensland - GSQ

29/11/2025

Ashton's Circus in Launceston, November 1961. From Launceston & Surrounds & G.V. Brooks High Pictorial History

29/11/2025

Gruesome Proceedings with an Aboriginal's Remains. Article published in The Bendigo Independent (Vic: 1891-1918) on the 23 Sept 1893, p.2. Thanks to Trove

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/174516904 #

Wauba Debar was, as the inscription on her gravestone runs, “a female aboriginal of Van Diemen’s Land,” who “died June, 1832, aged 40 years.” Little (says the ...

29/11/2025

Debunking the myth of ‘Wauba Debar’. A presentation by Louise Zarmati and Bradley Wood looking at the evidence into the well-known headstone of ‘Wauba Debar’ near Bicheno. Thanks to the Launceston Historical Society, Tasmania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wauba_Debar
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wauba-debars-grave

28/11/2025

Thanks to the State Library and Archives of Tasmania for their work in digitizing and preserved film and photographs.

Have you seen the rich store of digitised and preserved film and photographs that the State Library and Archives of Tasmania store? 🎞️

Each of these have been processed by our digitisation team, and preserved for the Tasmanian community, and beyond.

What we have available online is just the tip of the iceberg, and we look forward to bringing you more.

It’s World Preservation Day today, a good reminder about the importance of restoring and conserving these unique resources for now, and into the future.

Image: Chinese Family, Mr J Chung Gon 23-07-1949 [NS4024-1-14]/ Mercury Historical Collection

28/11/2025

'Bringing Out the Stories of Your Town' with 'Hunter Living Histories'. Thanks to the University of Newcastle Special Collections

Bringing Out The Stories of Your Town - Presentation by Gionni Di Gravio OAM to 2025 National Conference Australian Society of Archivists

27/11/2025

Australian postcards spanning 1880 to 1980. Thanks to Trove

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27/11/2025

Thanks to the Queensland Maritime Museum for this post

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17NnAvju1Z/?mibextid=wwXIfr

27/11/2025

Thanks to Staffordshire Past Track's post on a huge 1944 explosion. Our apologies for the fact that the presentation has now taken place, but the article in itself is very interesting.

This striking photo shows the aftermath of the RAF Fauld Explosion, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and the biggest on UK soil, and in which 70 people lost their lives.

On 27 November 1944, around 3,500–4,000 tonnes of ordnance detonated at the underground munitions depot in Staffordshire, creating a crater 100 feet deep and over 1,000 feet wide—the Fauld Crater, which is still visible today. For scale, spot the man in the centre, far right of the image.

The blast destroyed a nearby reservoir containing 450,000 cubic metres of water, along with several buildings including an entire farm, and caused widespread flooding.

Join our resident historian and digital officer, Ben Cunliffe, for a talk on this tragic event at the Staffordshire History Centre on Thursday 27th November at 1pm.

27/11/2025

Paronella Park, Mena Creek, Innisfail. From Vintage Queensland and from the State Library of Queensland Blog, the story behind Queensland's Spanish Castle: https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/paronella-park-story-behind-queenslands-spanish-castle
Built on the land of the Mamu People. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamu_people

Paronella Park, Mena Creek, Innisfail

26/11/2025

Whitsunday Island. Thanks to the Queensland State Archives

26/11/2025

Sr. Richmond's name is listed on the Rye Park Honour Roll for services during the Great War in the Australian Army Nursing Service. Her story thanks to Yass & District Historical Society Inc