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Congratulations to Sandra Wilson, Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt and Dean Aszkielowicz, who have recently published Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War (Columbia University Press). The book details how, beginning in late 1945, the United States, Britain, China, Australia, France, the Netherlands, and later the Philippines, the Soviet Union, and the Read more …
CFP deadline: Tuesday 7 February 2017 Monday 20 – Tuesday 21 February 2017, Regional Institutes Boardroom, Coombs Extension Building, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2106 When Japanese forces invaded Southeast Asia in 1941, hundreds of thousands of Indian people were present in the region. Some were soldiers of the British Raj, some were independent entrepreneurs Read more …
2016 Rare Book Public Lecture with Mark Lunney (University of New England). In 1945, the Anti-Conscription League published a pamphlet ostensibly about the recently deceased Maurice Blackburn’s opposition to conscription for the purpose of overseas military service. The polemic that infused the pamphlet – a discussion of the introduction of conscription in the Second World Read more …
Peter Monteath and Mandy Paul’s book Interned (Wakefield Press, 2014) was the basis for a recent ABC Radio National Earshot program on interred photographer Paul Dubotzki, who was allowed to keep his camera and document life in the camp: ‘Torrens Island internees, 1915’.
An Australian Studies Research Network with Ruth Balint. This paper draws on extensive original archival research to consider a hidden history of the children left behind, in the light of recent historiography of the new humanitarianism of the postwar era, which mostly assumes that keeping the family together was a priority at all costs, and Read more …
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 …
Brett Bowden has just published a new book on the 1942 bombing of Darwin, Direct Hit: The Bombing of Darwin Post Office (Rosenberg Publishing) that reveals the bravery and resourcefulness of PMG staff and other civilians at the affected site where the Overland Telegraph met the undersea cable which linked Australia to the rest of 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 …