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- 1959-2003 (Creation)
- 1840-2003 (Accumulation)
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Database (248.4 MB)
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Biographical history
Historian, statistician and writer. A long-serving Councillor of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland and a founder of the Professional Historians' Association (Queensland). An authority on Australian railways and the sugar industry, he published extensively in the Australian Railway Society's Bulletin, and wrote Triumph of narrow gauge: A history of Queensland railways. In 1959 he began the compilation of an historical database on Queensland railways, a resource which he regularly updated and re-supplied to Australian libraries from 1966 until his death.
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Donated by Ruth Kerr.
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Scope and content
The database comprises history notes on railways, sugar, mining, local history of Queensland. It includes notes from government and private archival records which were on open access to the researcher at the time; newspapers; Government Gazettes; Parliamentary Papers; Railway Public and Working Time Tables; industry journals; minutes of shire councils and ceased companies; oral interviews; diaries in libraries; magazines; notes on photographs etc.
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Unrestricted access.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International (CC BY-NC 3.0)
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- English
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Requires Inmagic or compatible computer program.
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Created, AM, 02-Jun-2020.