Social Media Request on Thoughts Re: the Lord Mayor’s Reply

June 2, 2023
The image (you can zoom in to read) is a reply from the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, responding to my letter, dated 5 April 2023, asking a series of questions on the multiple anniversaries – bicentennial and centennial events – for the City of Brisbane and for Queensland history (1823-1824, 1925; 2023-2025).     I […]

The image (you can zoom in to read) is a reply from the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, responding to my letter, dated 5 April 2023, asking a series of questions on the multiple anniversaries – bicentennial and centennial events – for the City of Brisbane and for Queensland history (1823-1824, 1925; 2023-2025).

 

 

I also added that I would be doing a paper on the status of local studies for the 50th AHA conference (4-6 July), and I was giving the Mayor an opportunity to respond.

 

 

It would be very helpful for me that – and if you did have a firm view on the Mayor’s response –  you place comments in posts or emails. I am making a nation-wide appeal for feedback which I will work into my paper on the status of local studies nation-wide. In this regard, I have a thesis that, even as there has been a countrywide decline with the loss of local studies units at the universities, the municipalities of Sydney and Melbourne have a different historical attitude to its own past than Brisbane.

 

 

Let me know what you think, and if my thesis might be correct (or not) and why?

 

 

Kind regards,

Neville.

 

 

 

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Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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1 year ago

Response to Simon Cole’s Proposal of Petition (Coopers Plains Local History Group) Simon Coles is the President of the Coopers Plains Local History Group, and wishes for Brisbane residents to call for the Brisbane City Council to own its own history, which is shared by Brisbane communities, through the 2023-2025 commemorative events. My reply: Thank you for the close reading of the Brisbane 2023-2025 commemorative issues in the reply. I support the proposal for a petition. I would though need to step back from that task, and, perhaps, Simon, you may wish to set-it up. I walk a tight line… Read more »