Articles
For the Queensland History Journal
- ‘”As unnatural as a fence-off sky”: Religious segregation in historical Brisbane cemeteries’, Queensland History Journal vol. 26, no. 1, February 2025, Royal Historical Society of Queensland.
- ‘Swinging Opinions: Why did Queensland lead the way in the abolition of capital punishment?’, Queensland History Journal vol. 25, no. 9, February 2024, Royal Historical Society of Queensland.
- ‘The Evolution of Execution in Queensland’, Queensland History Journal vol. 22, no. 3, November 2013, Royal Historical Society of Queensland.
- ‘Voracious monsters: People, sharks and the Brisbane River’, Queensland History Journal vol. 21, no. 10, August 2012), Royal Historical Society of Queensland.
- ‘What’s in a name? The rise, fall and comeback of Boggo’, Queensland History Journal vol. 21, no. 4, November 2011, Royal Historical Society of Queensland.
- ‘The Dead Outside the Fence: Burying executed prisoners in Brisbane, 1830-1913’, Queensland History Journal vol. 20, no. 8, November 2008, Royal Historical Society of Queensland.
Queensland Historical Atlas website, ‘Stone walls do a prison make: law on the landscape‘, 2011.
Heywood Advertiser newspaper (Heywood, England), series of articles on local history, 2015-16.
Westender, website, Brisbane, listed contributor, various articles, 2020-present.
Chapters
‘South Brisbane Cemetery and the Stephens Shire: Many Histories in One Place’ (with T. Olivieri), Memories of Stephens, Annerley-Stephens History Group, 2024.
‘The Lesson on Windmill Hill’, Within/Without These Walls, anthology, AndAlso Books / Brisbane Open House, 2018.
‘The Fair Fields of Fairfield’, Stories of Stephens: A History of Annerley and the Surrounding Suburbs, Annerley-Stephens History Group, 2017.
‘A Thoroughly Modern Hanging‘, essay for the Queensland Supreme Court exhibition Path to Abolition: A History of Execution in Queensland, June 2014.
‘1884-1904’, Dutton Park State School 2009 to 1884: A Journey, Dutton Park State School, 2009.
Christopher Dawson 