Name: Brisbane Freethought Association
Time: 1876 - 1886
Epoch: Late 19th Century
Category: Scholarly Society
Institution Category: Informing
Institution Group: Public Community Education
Coordinates: -27.4670283333333, 153.028583333333
Street Address: Brisbane Freethought Association, Brisbane School of Arts, 166 Ann Street, Brisbane City
Suburb: Brisbane City (CBD)
Sector: Independent \'Community\'
Local Study Area: Spring Hill-CBD-Fortitude Valley-New Farm (Inner City)
Study Stage: MBNH Stage 9 Local Study Areas
Brisbane Freethought Association was founded in 1884, and was the renamed Freethought Literary & Debating Society in 1886.
Geographic Description 1: Inside The Green Belt
Geographic Description 2: Brisbane River
Geographic Description 3: Flood Plains (Major); High River Banks (still floods); Ridgeline (Slopes off Wickham Tce)
Dahlitz, Ray. Secular Who’s Who: a Biographical Directory of Freethinkers, Secularists, Rationalists, Humanists and Others involved in Australia’s Secular Movement from 1850 onwards, R. Dahlitz, Balwyn, Vic, 1994.
Shaw, Barry; Metcalf, William James. (ed) Brisbane: Training, Teaching and Turmoil: Tertiary Education 1825-2018, Brisbane History Group, Salisbury, Qld, Boolarong Press, Moorooka, Qld, 2018.
Further research is underway.
Queensland Insurance Company Building, 1884. From The Lost Heritage of Eagle Street by John W. East [espace.library.uq.edu.au]
