Helen Gregory

Helen Gregory (born 1946) is a prominent historian, author and retired public servant in and of Brisbane, Queensland Australia and its surrounds.

She holds a BA (Hons) and JD from the University of Queensland and is a former adjunct professor of that institution.

In 1969 Helen Gregory was the first Queensland woman to be offered a Rotary Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship, but was unable to take up the award. [http://www.uq.edu.au/news/?article=1098]

In the mid 1970s she was a consultant historian to the private and government sectors, and is believed to be the first graduate historian in Queensland to use her training in this way, demonstrating that privately commissioned histories could be undertaken without sacrificing academic standards or ethical integrity. [http://www.uq.edu.au/news/?article=1098] She was the founder of the Brisbane History Group [http://www.brisbanehistory.asn.au/] and the Professional Historians' Association (Queensland) [http://www.qld.historians.org.au/] , the professional association which promotes the interests of consulting historians in Queensland, and maintains standards of practice. As well as commissioned history, Ms Gregory is the author or co-author of many accademic articles and studies and several entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/scripts/adbp-ent_search.php?authtext=Gregory%2C+Helen&authtype=phrase&authidtext=AUTH01421&authidtype=phrase&me=c]

Ms Gregory became the first Chair of the Queensland Heritage Council in 1992, and subsequently became Director, Cultural Heritage in the Queensland Government's Environment and Heritage department (later renamed the Environmental Protection Agency, the first woman to be appointed to a senior executive position in that department. [http://www.uq.edu.au/news/?article=1098]

In 2005 and subseqent years, Ms Gregory has been a judge of the History Book Award for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards [http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/awardsevents/awards/literary/2005_Judges] . In 2006 Ms Gregory was a member of the independent panel that suggested the name for the Elleanor Schonell Bridge to the Lord Mayor of Brisbane and in November 2007 she was appointed to the board of trustees of Newstead House, one of Queensland's oldest and most important cultural heritage sites. [http://governmentbodies.premiers.qld.gov.au/the-board.aspx?bid=300]

Books

Works by Helen Gregory include:

*"Playing for keeps : C&K's first century, 1907-2007" Helen Gregory 2008 [ISBN: 9780908499571]

*"Brisbane then & now" Helen Gregory. 2007 [ISBN 9781741730111]
*"Capturing law and history : one hundred years of Queensland Law Reporting" / by Helen Gregory. 2007 [ISBN 9780980322026] [http://archive.sclqld.org.au/sclpub/ICLR/order.pdf]

*"Expressions of mercy : a history of the Mater Hospitals 1906-2006" Helen Gregory. 2006 [ISBN 0702235393]

*"Women of the West" Helen Gregory and W. Ross Johnston. 2004 [ISBN 1876780401]

*"A century of sail : the South Brisbane Sailing Club 1903-2003" Helen Gregory 2003 [ISBN 0646426400]

*"The Brisbane River story : meanders through time" Helen Gregory. 1996 [ISBN 0646301322]

*"Women on course : the McLeod Country Golf Club, 1968-1993" Helen Gregory and Margaret Kowald 1993 [ISBN 0646154370]

*"Bearers of the tradition : nurses of The Royal Brisbane Hospital, 1888-1993" Helen Gregory, Cecilia Brazil. 1993 [ISBN 0646161962]
*"UQ Alumni : the first twenty-five years of the Alumni Association of the University of Queensland" Helen Gregory. 1993 [ISBN 1875401199 ]

*"Managing the land : index to the Lands Department papers, Queensland votes and proceedings, 1880-1899" by W. Ross Johnston, Helen Gregory, Jennifer Harrison. 1992

*"Making Maroochy : a history of the land, the people and the shire" Helen Gregory. 1991 [ISBN 0646044699]

*"The Queensland Law Society Inc. 1928-1988 : a history" Helen Gregory. 1991 [ISBN 0864390645]

*"Arcadian simplicity : J. B. Fewings memoirs of Toowong" edited by Helen Gregory. 1990 [ISBN 0864391102]
*"A tradition of care : a history of nursing at the Royal Brisbane Hospital" Helen Gregory. 1988 [ISBN 0864390645]

*"Vivant Professores : distinguished members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940" Helen Gregory. 1987 [ISBN 0908471092]

*"A church for its times : the story of S. Thomas' Church, Toowong" by Helen Gregory ; with a foreword by the Archbishop of Brisbane, the Most Reverend Felix Arnott ; Cover design by Richard Stringer. 1977
*"A register of some administrative divisions in Queensland 1850-1891" by Helen Gregory and Ross Johnston.

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