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Senior Historian, Australian War Memorial. Second World War and Australian Peacekeeping 1947-present.

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B+W photo of Charles Bean at work, c. 1920s. AWM A05389.

B+W photo of Charles Bean at work, c. 1920s. AWM A05389.

Come and study with us! It'll be fun!

Applications are open for the Australian War Memorial Summer Scholars program, to be held in Canberra next Jan-Feb.

Apply here: www.awm.gov.au/get-involved...

03.09.2025 01:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This #BookFriday don’t forget to book your free tickets for next week’s author talk at the @AWMemorial! Join us as Michael Veitch discusses his latest πŸ“– on the Borneo campaigns in 1945. See: awm.gov.au/author-talk-mi…

#WeHaveWays #WWII

29.08.2025 05:04 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Australian War Memorial's special #VPDay symposium "Interpreting Australia's Second World War: previewing Anzac Hall" is now online: www.youtube.com/live/P6vGj8_....

For more #WWII see, including author talks, see: www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-t...

#WeHaveWays #WWII #VJDay80

19.08.2025 02:34 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Very happy to see the photographic exhibition I curated β€œVictory in the Pacific!”is now on display at the Australian War Memorial.

It’s free! Come & have a look:
www.awm.gov.au/articles/blo...

#WeHaveWays #WWII

01.08.2025 05:09 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

There are some good #NavalHistory photos in here. CAPT James Buchanan, RAN, was in charge of one of the three Allied naval brigades that first went ashore in Japan after the surrender, and was the first Australian to enter Japan after the armistice, on (I think) 30 Aug 1945.

01.08.2025 11:03 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Australian War Memorial is marking the 80th anniversary of the end of #WWII in a variety of ways, including with free author talks. First up is the award winning @kristenauthor.bsky.social!

For more see: www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-t...

12.05.2025 01:18 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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We're very proud of the Australian War Memorial's new print & digital magazine WM πŸŽ‰ Our first issue features @claremulley.bsky.social Peter Caddick-Adams Mat McLachlan @drdavesutton.bsky.social & others.

Sign up now: wm.awm.gov.au
❀️for a chance to win a copy.

#WeHaveWays #VEDay80 #VEDay2025

07.05.2025 05:39 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Very productive morning working in the @AWMemorial’s new reading room this morning πŸͺΆ πŸ“– The new Charles Bean Research Centre is now open. The facilities are incredible, the views are beautiful & the staff are always knowledgeable. I’ve already picked out β€œmy” research desk 😏

07.03.2025 04:13 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Great to see this publication arrive in the mail today!

02.03.2025 04:34 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies This handbook brings together historical and contemporary essays about Soviet and Russian military studies, to offer a comprehensive volume on the topic. Comprising essays written by acknowledged spec...

www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Coming out soon! Glad to have contributed a chapter (co-authored with the University of Wollongong’s Stephen Brown) to this important book.

14.01.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ukraine not β€˜the’ Ukraine Cambridge Core - European Studies - Ukraine not β€˜the’ Ukraine

Free download of e-copy first two weeks after publication. Get yours here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

27.11.2024 07:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Very proud to have contributed to this excellent volume β€˜Special Operations: India, Burma, China and Malaya’ in Andrew Kilsby & Daryl Moran (eds), In the fight: Australians and the war in Burma, 1942–1945 academia.edu/125872084/_Spe… #WeHaveWays #HistBookChat

27.11.2024 04:41 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wonderful book launch yesterday of β€œIn the Fight: Australians and the War in Burma” @ The Shrine of Remembrance. Many contributors were present, including my @AWMemorial colleagues @Meghan1_Adams @anthea_gunn & Alexandra Torrens, as well as children of veterans.

#WeHaveWays

18.11.2024 05:25 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0