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Announcing the ReLaunch MBH Website

Date: July 9, 2018

View of Brisbane. c. 1925. Brisbane City Council. BCC-B120-23552. The Mapping Brisbane History website is a very unusual website, one that is very unique for Queensland, and even Australia. We believe that anyone can discover bigger worlds within smaller units, and in doing so, we find together the freedom to traverse the boundaries. There are […]

The MBH Online Mapping Program On-Track for Completion

Date: January 30, 2018

The MBH online mapping program is on-track for completion, ready for the re-launch in April 2018. A Master Copy of multiple MBH Data spreadsheets (the most updated file) is being developed and translated to the website MBH mapping program. The process includes integrating over 800 heritage sites from the Brisbane City Council Heritage Register, as […]

Annual General Meeting 2017 December

Date: November 28, 2017

Sunnybank District History Group Annual General Meeting 2017 will be held at 10.00 a.m., Saturday 2 December, at the main meeting room, Sunnybank Hills Library. At which point all SDHG positions will be vacant. Three vacancies need to be fulfilled President Secretary Treasurer For an organisation to continue it has to have one executive position […]

Brisbane Southside History Network (BSHN) Workshop - August 2017

Date: June 7, 2017

<iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3536.9204544749864!2d153.0370217150977!3d-27.564979082851075!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6b9145381ba4f799%3A0xf8595350e9abdf61!2s107+Orange+Grove+Rd%2C+Coopers+Plains+QLD+4108%2C+Australia!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1496795363007" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe> You are invited to a special Brisbane Southside History Network (BSNH) workshop which will launch a major phase of the Mapping Brisbane History Project, displaying historical sites across Brisbane Southside. 2pm to 5pm Saturday, 26 August 2017 in the Large Meeting Room at Coopers Plains Library, 107 Orange […]

MBH Media Release March 2017

Date: March 17, 2017

Funding for 2014: The Coopers Plains Local History Group Inc., as a sponsoring member of the Brisbane Southside History Network, has been granted $22,000 in one of the 2016-2017 Brisbane Community History Grants, from the Brisbane City Council’s Brisbane History Grants Program. Mapping Brisbane History Project has a new release of life which will allow its completion […]

Historical Geography Relives The MBH Project

Date: August 20, 2016

Introducing the Mapping Brisbane History Project for the 2016 Professional Historians Australia Conference, Melbourne, Australia Google Maps and Google Earth in 2005 revived a sub-discipline that had been badly neglected in the previous couple of decades, historical geography. Online historical mapping was generated on a number of different platforms and spurred a plethora of webpages […]

Griffith University Volunteer Day 2015

Date: August 4, 2015

Griffith University Goldcoast Volunteer Day was a success with many showing interest and discussing various areas of history! Thank you, all who chatted with us! Topics included the Mapping Brisbane History Project researched by the Brisbane Southside History Network. There was also interest in History & Philosophy in Queensland conducted by Dr Neville Buch.

Strathairlie Square Area of MacGregor

Date: June 25, 2015

Link to article On 7 June 1871, Alfred Hughes bought a 48 acre allotment from Maria Kessels1. He continued to buy the adjoining lots until he owned about 150 acres2. This property gave Alfred Hughes space to breed, spell and train his horses that were used in his livery stables in Brisbane. His property also […]

The Coopers Plains History Group is uncovering Brisbane’s past with the click of a mouse

Date: March 23, 2014

Original Article A NEW website is helping to uncover Brisbane’s forgotten past. Mapping Brisbane History uses Google Earth to layer maps from the 19th and 20th centuries with historical facts to create a complete picture of different areas in Brisbane. Assistant project manager Beryl Roberts said the website was for anyone in the community […]