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.

Find out how how to book an appointment to view material in the Fryer Library and how to contact Fryer Library staff.

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.

An original Fryer display cabinet is moving to level 2 of Duhig Tower in Semester 2, 2019 to give you greater access to our special collections.

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.