''Pugh's Almanac'' was an annual
almanac
An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. It includes information like weather forecasting, weather forecasts, farmers' sowing, planting dates ...
published in
Queensland
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,
Australia
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. It provided a guide to Queensland, and information about the events of the previous year and included several directories of commercial and non-commercial organisations.
History
It was founded by
Theophilus Parsons Pugh
Theophilus Parsons Pugh (1831–1896) was an Australian journalist, newspaper editor, politician, publisher and public servant, as well as the editor-in-chief of the Moreton Bay Courier, which he in 1861 renamed to ''The Courier'', renamed aga ...
, and published from 1859 to 1927.
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See also
* '' Australian Blue Book''
* ''Walch's Tasmanian Almanac
''Walch's Tasmanian Almanac'' was an almanac produced in Hobart by J. Walch and Sons from the 1850s until 1980.
It had a range of variant titles over the time that it was published, but was commonly known as ''Walch's Almanac''.
Also known as ...
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References
External links
Pugh's Almanac
Australian almanacs
History of Queensland
Publications established in 1859
Publications disestablished in 1927
1859 establishments in Australia
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