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You have tried to access content (including funding opportunities, calls for papers, news and events) that is only available to AHA members. But it is easy to join us!
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Congratulations to Justin Chadwick on the publication of his new book, which is a collection of 86 biographies, representing every Australian Army officer to reach the rank of major general from Federation to the outbreak of World War II. It describes a crucial period in Australian military history through the lives of the men at its Read more …
Applications for grants that support research into the history of the Australian Army are now open and close Friday 3 March 2017. Further information.
This conference, to be held at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, 13–14 July 2017, will explore military tasks beyond the battlefield. Histories of the ‘frontline’ overshadow the study of ‘other’ vital military tasks, such as ‘aid to the civil power’, oceanographic research, aerial surveillance, which, along with tasks like training foreign militaries and combating transnational crime, have Read more …
There are two positions available at the AWM, one for a Historian and one for a Senior Historian. The Historian will be responsible for a range of higher-level research and writing tasks in support of Australian military historical projects relating to Australian War Memorial publications, conferences, multi-media products, exhibitions, research and dissemination of military history Read more …
Submissions are now open for the following three prizes offered by the Society of Military History: Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Awards are given to outstanding graduate students to help defray costs associated with presenting a paper or poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History. The award provides $1,000 to Read more …
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 …