Learn about the life of Constance ‘Clyde’ McAdam – author, sometime Suffragette, and eventual Brisbanite.
Author Archives: Christopher Dawson
Colonial Columns: Consecration of the Church of England Burial Ground (Brisbane, 1862)
An article describing the consecration of the Church of England Burial Ground in Brisbane, 1862.
Colonial Columns: The Lost Graveyard of Terranora Creek
A look at a lost graveyard with links to some tragic events near Tweed Heads.
The Strangest Case Ever Made Against Capital Punishment
Learn about the Queensland MP who claimed that the ghosts of hanged prisoners might control the living.
Australia’s Next Top Bizarre Death-Contraption
Read about the bizarre methods of execution proposed by 19th-century Queenslanders.
Colonial Columns: The Chinese in Camooweal (1892)
An article displaying the racism surrounding the movement of Chinese immigrants in the far north of Queensland during the 1890s.
Slim Halliday: Man or Spiderman?
Did Arthur ‘Slim’ Halliday REALLY jump from a cellblock roof to escape from Boggo Road?
The Tale of the Logan Crocodile
There were rumours of a saltwater crocodile near Logan in the early 1900s. But were they true?
Colonial Columns: ‘Cleveland Point’, by John Dunmore Lang (1854)
A case against making Cleveland the capital of Queensland, written by John Dunmore Lang in 1854.
Citation Needed: Evil-Clown Fakelore in Brisbane
Another case of fakelore is exposed in Brisbane, this one involving a non-existent ‘urban legend’ about an ‘evil clown’. Who believes this stuff?
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