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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 …
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State Records NSW presents a new exhibition that engages with a series of remarkable images taken by government photographers during and immediately after the First World War. Research within and beyond the state archives accompanies the images to create an account that offers new insights into the home front in NSW during the war. Windows into 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.
Sites of International Memory is an interdisciplinary research project based at the Laureate Research Program in International History. This event will bring together major practitioners in the new international history, and the history of memory to discuss the ways in which sites of the international have been important to national histories, and to explore the historical significance of institutional Read more …
Just opened at the State Library of New South Wales, this draws together over 150 war photographs which originally toured Australia in the early 1920s, drawing huge crowds. Many of the photographs were taken by soldiers in the field or while on R&R – some were even taken by enemy soldiers – and depict sweeping Read more …
If you are attending the Australian Studies conference in Beijing in July, you are also invited to this workshop that is bringing together major practitioners in the new international history, and the history of memory to discuss the ways in which sites of the international have been important to national histories, and to explore the Read more …