Cultural and historical collections

The Fryer Library offers internships for students in different disciplines. This guest post by GEND3001 intern, Ellen Nixon, details her research into LGBTI ephemera collections for her research project.

We’re making it easier for you to connect with our special collections online and in the FW Robinson Reading room with updates to our webpages.

In this guest blog post from Fryer intern Emma Newman, find out more about award-winning Australian author Frank Moorhouse and his manuscripts held in the Fryer Library.

How have you been keeping up communication during this period of physical distancing? Have you considered sending letters to your friends and family? In this guest blog, celebrated Brisbane writer David Malouf reflects on the lost art of letter writing.

A new book about John Denis Fryer, for whom the Fryer Library is named, and the rest of his family has been published by Boolarong Press.

In a guest blog post, intern Emma Newman discusses D.H. Lawrence's 1923 novel Kangaroo several editions of which are held in the Fryer Library.

In this guest post from Fryer intern Amanda Chambers, find out more about one of the more unusual items in the Library's collection: a nineteenth-century portable medical cabinet.

We are pleased to announce Dr Kate Crowcroft as the Library Creative Writing Fellow for 2020. For her project, Kate will complete a collection of poems, drawing in particular on the photographic archives of two pioneering Australian women — travel writer and journalist Ernestine Hill and artist Daphne Mayo.

Find out more about the Walter Carey Voller collection of architectural plans in the Fryer Library which has been recently catalogued and digitised.

In this guest blog, our Creative Writing Fellow, Nicky Peelgrane, updates us as rehearsals get underway for her fellowship event, a reading of her play Prospero's Dukedom, which will take place at Fryer Library on Friday 11 October.