Prison Life
Despite its notoriety, life inside Boggo Road was quite routine most of the time. The public were generally only aware of the headline-ma...
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The Bloody, Bloody Hangings of Ellen Thomson and John Harrison
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) There are a couple of points I always like to make on my 'Hangman's Walk' cemeter...
The Executed Prisoners
These pages feature the details of the 94 people who were hanged at Moreton Bay and Queensland during 1830-1913. Hangings in Brisbane 1883-1...
Origins of the 94 People Hanged in Queensland
The first hanging in Brisbane took place in 1830. The last one in Queensland was in 1913. 93 of these people were men, one was a wom...
Executed Prisoners, Brisbane 1830-82
This was a period of rapid and remarkable change for both Brisbane and capital punishment. While the place grew from being a remote convict...
Executed Prisoners, Regional Queensland 1864-90
As the new colony of Queensland expanded its frontier throughout the 1860s, new towns could measure their growing status by the presence of...
Executed Prisoners, Brisbane 1883-1913
After the new prison and cellblock gallows were constructed at HM Prison, Boggo Road, Brisbane in 1883, that prison hosted almost every han...
A Suffragette Recalls Boggo Road Gaol
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) The following article about a female prisoner recalling her time inside Boggo Road is adapted...
Tom Uren and Boggo Road
Article by Stephen M Gage Tom Uren. (National Archives Australia) This great gentleman once graced our presence at Boggo Road; he was a b...
Queensland 1948: Reds in the Cell Beds
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) ( Courier-Mail , October 1949). There have been several occasions over the decades when acti...
Colonial Queensland Prisoners: Where Were They From?
Unlike the glossy, spin-manipulated brochures that pass for government department reports today, annual prison reports once provided frank ...
John Andrew Stuart & Jim Finch: Double Trouble
John Andrew Stuart (left) and Jim Finch (right). It has been over 50 years since Brisbane’s 'Whiskey au Go Go' nightclub was fi...
The 'Lingering Doubts' of Brisbane's 1947 'Arcade Murder'
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) The murder of Bronia Armstrong in Brisbane in 1947 turned into a double tragedy when Reginald ...
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