The Harry Gentle Resource Centre and Biographical Dictionary.
Griffith University’s Harry Gentle Resource Centre (HGRC) has recently launched a Dictionary of Biography concentrating on First Peoples, soldiers, convicts and early settlers of Queensland. However, the HGRC is much more than a Dictionary of Biography to which members of the public are invited to submit entries. The centre also provides visiting fellowships to academic, professional and local historians to undertake projects on colonial Queensland and Queenslanders which are published on the HGRC website. Harry Gentle’s wish was to create a centre focused on people, groups and organisations that are not usually the subject of academic study and dictionaries of biography: First Nations people and communities; convicts and free-born; sailors and settlers; faith leaders and the military – the ‘ordinary’ people of the area that became known as Queensland in 1859.
Presenter: Jan Richardson
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