Brisbane : relaxation, recreation and rock'n'roll : popular culture 1890-1990 / edited by Barry Shaw.

Brisbane : Brisbane History Group, 2001.

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History -- Queensland.

Local history -- Queensland.

Brisbane (Qld.) -- History.

Brisbane at leisure in the 1890s : Mixed bathing...not allowed here:

1. The Brisbane River : a source of recreation 1890-1900 / Patricia Jones

2. Cricket and cycling in the 1890s / Ian Jobling

3. Train excursions for the masses in the 1890s / John Kerr

4. Southport in the 1890s : decline and temporary fall from favour / Robert Longhurst

5. Sandgate in the 1890s : attractions and minor irritations / Barry Shaw

6. Painters and patrons : art in Brisbane 1890-1906 / Pam Barnett

7. Books and reading in the 1890s / Shirley McCorkindale

8. Proliferating habits : leisure and clothing in the 1890s / Margaret Maynard

Brisbane at leisure in the twentieth century : Is you or is you ain't a square?

9. Brisbane by night : al fresco 1900-1914 / Sue Ward

10. Brisbane on the visitors' circuit 1870s-1940s / Tim Moroney

11. Popular culture : radio to television in the 1950s / Jennifer Harrison

12. Crazy news: rock'n'roll in Brisbane and Bill Haley's Big Show, 1956-57 / Raymond Evans

Pubs, publicans and the law : A square meal sixpence. A perfect gorge one and sixpence

13. More than a passing trade : the social role of pubs / Maureen Lillie

14. Brisbane's Irish brewers and cordial manufacturers / David Larkin

15. Legislation and hotels / Judy Rechner.

Donated by Brisbane History Group, July 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0958625522

1035-4050

viii, 156 p. : ill. ; 24 cm