Margaret Cook is a freelance historian who specialises in the
history of the built environment and social history. Margaret
has published books and articles and a number of cultural heritage
plans and assessments. She was a member of the Queensland Heritage
Council from 1999 until June 2000, serving as its Deputy Chair
from 2004 to June 2006.
Skills and services offered:
Research & writing
Public speaking
Heritage consulting
Historical tours
Land Title searches
Professional interests:
Heritage
Biography
Land history
Social history
Qualifications: B.A. Hons. (UQ)
Publications and experience:
Queenie's Diary: A schoolgirl's life 1914-1915. Ipswich
Girls Grammar School, 2005.
Margaret Cook and Ian Pullar, Play with flowers and smile:
A short history of the Ipswich Horticultural Society 1866-2004.
Ipswich Horticultural Society, 2005.
Shifting sands: Memories of Moreton Island. Moreton Island
Protection Committee, 2005.
Technically speaking: A history of the Bremer Institute of
TAFE. Bremer Institute of TAFE, 2002.
Howard Pearce, Kay Cohen and Margaret Cook, Heritage trails
of the Queensland Outback. EPA, 2002.
Ian Pullar & Margaret Cook, Watery sources: A people's
history of the Water Resources Commission (Queensland) and its
predecessors 1881-1995. DNR, 2001.
H Pearce and K Cohen, Heritage trails of the Tropical North,
EPA, 2001.
H Pearce and K Cohen, Heritage trails of the great South East,
EPA, 2000.
North Queensland's mining heritage trails with Environmental
Protection Agency and Kay Cohen, 1999.
Knights of the road: The Commercial Travellers of Queensland.
Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland,
Vol. 17. No. 6, May 2000: 241-246.
We will remember them: A history of the Yeronga-Dutton Park
Sub-Branch RSL and Yeronga Services Club. Brisbane: Yeronga
Services Club, 1999.
The town on the brown: A history of Rolleston. Brisbane:
Department of Natural Resources, 1999.
Queensland schools: A heritage conservation study, 1996
(co-author)
Rising from the ashes: A jubilee history of Ipswich Little
Theatre, 1946-1996
'Taking Stock', The View No.4, 1996
W.W. Cobb in Australian Dictionary of Biography
'Conversion by Fire', National Trust Journal Issue 7 October
1996
Graceville Uniting Church, 1998.
Address: Ms Margaret Cook
10 Whitehill Road
Newtown Qld 4305
Phone: 07 3812 7995
Fax: 07 3282 8005
Mobile: 0418 753 546
E-mail: Margaret
Cook
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19 April 2007