On 10 May 1985 the University of Queensland awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws to Queensland Premier Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. Up to 5000 UQ students, UQ staff, trade unionists and other outraged citizens attended the protest outside Mayne Hall, St Lucia, where the award ceremony was to take place. Although the ceremony proceeded, the Premier did not attend.

Notes, newspaper cuttings and a work diary pertaining to Feilding Chippendale's work as a horticulturalist on the University of Queensland's St. Lucia campus in the late 1930s. Also photographs of University of Queensland students (mainly in the Botany, Argriculture and Entomology Departments) on field excursions.

Ephemera, badges, posters, drawings, newspaper cuttings scrapbook, and videorecordings relating to radical politics, labour movements, student demonstrations, and student activities, including some theatre productions.

Reports, minutes, correspendence, plans, newspaper cuttings and other records relating to the history of the University of Queensland, its colleges, clubs and staff association. Includes series on the planning and development of the St Lucia campus in the 1940s and 50s, the university's sporting clubs and competitions, the UQ War Memorial Committee, the Co-ordinating Committee for Overseas Students and FW Robinson's guide to the University, published in 1957.

Architectural plans of residential and commercial buildings. Also includes bills of quantities, client files, specification files, job files, miscellaneous papers of A.B. Wilson and R.M. Wilson, and card index of plans by plan numbers, job numbers, and client names. Includes several plans by Alfred Banks.
Also includes rare poster "Victoria Skating Rink, Sandgate". Includes plan of 'University site, St. Lucia. Proposed design', by R.W.J. Hawken, 1929.
Professor Hawken and Alexander Wilson were members of a committee established in 1921 to determine a site for the University of Queensland.

The Geology Annex, the Chemistry Annexe and the Western Arts Building were part of a master planning concept. They shared the structural and construction concept developed by Birrell and Antony Tod (structural engineer). None of the proposals were built.

Minutes; record of attendance; list of members and subscriptions; annual reports; publications.
Bulk of material dated 1960 to 1984.