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.
With its elegant gilt-embossed cover protecting a full-page relief-printed engraving by Francis Delaram,The Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth (1630) visually demonstrates the value of literacy in the seventeenth century. The earliest owners of this book suffused it with meaning in their own distinct ways. The Historie of Elizabeth evolved against a backdrop of differing political and religious views and the rise of print and literacy.
In this guest blog, the Fryer Library Creative Writing Fellow for 2019, Nicky Peelgrane, updates us on her progress as she continues her project on Shakespeare's The Tempest and the Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe.
To commemorate Anzac Day, we look back through collections held in our Fryer Library to examine the role that war played in the life of students and staff at The University of Queensland during the Second World War.
During the digitisation of the Jack Keith [JK] Murray collection, held in the Fryer Library, we uncovered an interesting story. Photographs illustrate the 1949 Hallstrom Trust Meeting held in the then Australian administered Territories of Papua and New Guinea.
A story about work by University Archivist, Bruce Ibsen. Between 2014-2018 Bruce uncovered stories of UQ ANZACs and helped contribute to a number of projects.