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Congratulations to James Bennett and Kate Ariotti for the publication of this edited collection, which was launched at the Newcastle conference by Professor Stuart Macintyre. This book contributes to the global turn in First World War studies by exploring Australians’ engagements with the conflict across varied boundaries and by situating Australian voices and perspectives within Read more …
Nick Brodie has edited the letters and provided the commentary for George Martindale’s Dodging the Devil: Letters from the Front, Gallipoli, Fromelles and Bullecourt (Hardie Grant), which collects messages and photographs Martindale sent to his family in Melbourne documenting his daily life during World War I.
Honest History asks why do the people who control our war memorials look so unlike the rest of us and why does this matter? And, a century on, how much will we hear about the big domestic stories of the Great War? The ‘Gentle Reader’ reviews Anthony Hill’s book about a Canberra region family in Read more …
New material on Honest History’s website includes a 36 page ‘Alternative Guide to the Australian War Memorial’ (aimed at senior secondary students and teachers); a piece on the impact of the Irish Easter Rising in 1916 on Australia (using the work of Stephanie James and Jeff Kildea); two pieces on Ataturk and Australia (including how Read more …
Vicken Babkenian and Peter Stanley’s Armenia, Australia & the Great War (NewSouth) tells the powerful story of how Australian humanitarians helped the Armenian people during one of the twentieth-century’s most terrible human calamities.
New on the Honest History website: a long essay on the battle by Vietnam veterans to have a new independent history written about health issues post-Vietnam, particularly the effects of Agent Orange an article by John Brookes on the links between nationalism and phenomena like Anzac an article by David Stephens, drawing upon recent Turkish Read more …
Join author Jeannine Baker as she tells the hidden story of Australian and New Zealand women war reporters who fought for equality with their male colleagues and filed stories from the main conflicts of the twentieth century. Jeannine will draw out the links between the experiences of these pioneers and the contemporary realities faced by Read more …
The online exhibition Canberra Women in World War I – Community at Home, Nurses Abroad tells the stories of the contributions of women to the ACT’s war effort at home and overseas and how their efforts contributed to the shaping of community on the national capital.
The centennial of the First World War has prompted questions about its impact beyond 1918, one of which was the League of Nations. Formed in 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations had an ambitious agenda to check aggression and usher in a new world order following Read more …
Patricia Clarke and Niki Francis are the historians behind the online exhibition Canberra Women in World War I – Community at Home, Nurses Abroad which tells the stories of the contributions of women to the ACT’s war effort at home and overseas and how their efforts contributed to the shaping of community on the national Read more …