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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 …
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 …
Honest History’s e-newsletter has gone out to subscribers and is also on the Honest History website. This month brings the latest research from Ankara on the elusive ‘Ataturk words’ of 1934; David Stephens wondering whether the new Minister for the Centenary of Anzac will be too busy with his other jobs to do it properly; Read more …
The ABC documentary series The War That Changed Us, created and co-written by Clare Wright, is a finalist for an ATOM award (Australian Teachers of Media) for Best Docudrama. Winners will be announced in Melbourne on 26 November 2015. Through funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs, a DVD set of The War That Changed Read more …
Time is fast running out to register for the ‘War and Emotions’ symposium, 17-18 September 2015, Melbourne Museum. Speakers include some of the most outstanding historians on the impacts of the First World War in our time. Email enquiries. Twitter: #WarEmotions