Two are from a seminar entitled `For Queen and Empire: Queensland and the South African War 1899-1902′ held on 26 May 2012 and seven were delivered at our seminars `Brisbane and World War I’ held on 6 September 2014 and 3 October 2015. An additional two papers were delivered elsewhere.

Written by amateurs, professionals and academics, the chapters offer a diverse range of subjects. Themes include:

*the importance of military medicine during the Second South African War

*the Dutch attitudes and responses to the Boers and British and their decision to adopt a `neutral’ position

*the story of the twelve Brisbane Grammar School old boys who fought in the Second South African War and World War I

*the increasing activity at the Port of Brisbane as troops embarked for Europe and German raiders ventured into the Pacific

*the underage enlistees, their motives, their experiences, their fate and the aftermath

*the paediatricians and paediatric nurses who readily volunteered for duty in World War I

*the formation of the Women’s Peace Army and its `war against war’ … and conscription

*the influences on Canon John Garland and his design for the Anzac Day service

*the sorry saga of the Clark Memorial Windows at St John’s Cathedral

*the response of Brisbane theatre to the changing attitudes of audiences in World War I

*the opportunities to display patriotism in a range of different performances