Regions Australasia
Survey Articles (Regional)
Regional Thematic Articles
- Anzac (Australia)
- Art (Australia)
- Bereavement and Mourning (Australia)
- Bereavement and Mourning (New Zealand)
- Between Acceptance and Refusal - Soldiers' Attitudes Towards War (Australia)
- Between Acceptance and Refusal - Soldiers' Attitudes Towards War (New Zealand)
- Centenary (Australia)
- Centenary (New Zealand)
- Civilian and Military Power (Australia)
- Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen (Australia)
- Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen (New Zealand)
- Conscription (Australia)
- Dominions’ Military Relationship to Great Britain 1902-1914 (British Dominions)
- Dominion Soldiers on Leave in Europe (New Zealand)
- Film/Cinema (Australia)
- Food and Nutrition (Australia)
- Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Australia)
- Governments, Parliaments and Parties (New Zealand)
- Historiography 1918-Today (Australia)
- Historiography 1918-Today (New Zealand)
- Indigenous Experience of War (British Dominions)
- Labour Movements, Trade Unions and Strikes (Australia)
- Literature (Australia)
- Making Sense of the War (Australia)
- Making Sense of the War (New Zealand)
- Organization of War Economies (Australia)
- Post-war Economies (Australia)
- Post-war Economies (New Zealand)
- Post-war Societies (Australia)
- Press/Journalism (Australia)
- Press/Journalism (New Zealand)
- Pre-war Military Planning (Australia)
- Prisoners of War (Australia)
- Propaganda at Home (Australia)
- Religion (Australia)
- Science and Technology (Australia)
- Social Conflict and Control, Protest and Repression (Australia)
- Social Conflict and Control, Protest and Repression (New Zealand)
- War Aims and War Aims Discussions (Australia)
- Warfare 1914-1918 (Australia)
- Warfare 1914-1918 (New Zealand)
- War Finance (Australia)
- War Losses (Australia)
- Women’s Mobilisation for War (Australia)
- Women's Mobilization for War (New Zealand)
Encyclopedic Entries
See also
- Bereavement and Mourning
- Centenary (Battlefield Tourism)
- Centenary (Education, Pedagogy, Youth Programs)
- Centenary (Internet)
- Centenary (Libraries)
- Centenary (Visual Arts)
- Children and Youth
- Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen
- Controversy: Total War
- Extra-European Theatres of War
- Health, Disease, Mortality; Demographic Effects
- Historiography 1918-Today
- Influenza Pandemic
- League of Nations
- Memory of the War: Popular Memory 1918-1945, 1945 to the Present
- Migration and Mobility
- Military Justice
- Museums
- Mutilation and Disfiguration
- Photography
- Post-war Economies
- Rural Society
- State, Civil Society and Relief Organizations for War
- War Letters: Communication between Front and Home Front
- Willingly to War. Public Response to the Outbreak of War
- Women’s Mobilization for War
- Women War Reporters
Survey Articles (Regional)
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The impact of the First World War on Australia was so profound that its memory dominates the national political culture even today, in the form of the Anzac “legend.” The mass casualties suffered … READ MORE
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New Zealand was the British Dominion furthest from the conflict in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nonetheless with Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, New Zealand and its one million … READ MORE
Regional
Regional Thematic Articles
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This article briefly outlines the origins, development and significance of the Anzac legend for Australians since 1915. The initial reception of Anzac as symbolizing “the birth of a nation” is … READ MORE
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Artistic responses to Australia’s war effort were diverse and engaging. Soldiers sketching what they experienced of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign produced some of the earliest images of the conflict. … READ MORE
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This article considers patterns of bereavement and mourning in Australia both during and immediately after the Great War. It argues that the conditions of modern warfare and sheer distance from the … READ MORE
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This article examines bereavement and mourning in New Zealand during the First World War. Many thousands of New Zealand families were left bereft by the First World War. Their experience was … READ MORE
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The attitudes and behaviours of men of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) were the consequence of them serving as volunteers in the particular circumstances of a distant and costly war. But they … READ MORE
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Their war experience changed the attitudes of New Zealand soldiers dramatically – from enthusiasm to a cynicism about war, from an identification with the British to a mateship with Australians, … READ MORE
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From 2010-2020, Australia fielded the longest, most expensive, and arguably most complex Great War centenary of any combatant nation. It involved unprecedented investment from the state, but was also … READ MORE
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There was a large investment of government funds in the centenary commemoration of the First World War in New Zealand. This resulted in big government projects such as the creation of the Pukeahu … READ MORE
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Civilians in the Australian government contended with two types of military power in the Great War: generals of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), and British army military commanders and the War … READ MORE
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The memory of the First World War has played a prominent role in Australian political culture. The Anzac legend, originating in the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, soon became the foundational narrative of … READ MORE
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Anzac Day is the primary method of New Zealand public engagement with the Great War. Commemorating the failed Anzac Landings of April 1915, New Zealand's Anzac Day has, in the years since then, been … READ MORE
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Conscription was the most divisive issue in Australian politics during the First World War. The expeditionary force which the Australian government offered to Britain in August 1914 was composed only … READ MORE
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The dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and South Africa shared an ambiguous constitutional relationship with Britain. The self-governing dominions were free to implement their … READ MORE
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This article considers the experiences of New Zealand soldiers on leave in Britain. In particular it focuses on the efforts of voluntary organizations like the YMCA to construct London as a ‘home … READ MORE
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Australian cinema experienced a war of two halves during 1914-1918. The start was dominated by war dramas funded through private enterprise, telling sensational stories largely derived from British … READ MORE
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Food grown and produced in Australia during World War I was used to provision the nation’s troops in training and on ships to the theatres of war, and to supply imperial needs on the battlefront, … READ MORE
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The Commonwealth of Australia, a self-governing Dominion of the British Empire, experienced splits during the Great War in the major parties of both the left and right. The Australian Labor Party, in … READ MORE
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New Zealand’s wartime parliament was dominated by a coalition between the two main parties, Reform and Liberal. Labour parliamentarians opposed the coalition and the war was a significant factor in … READ MORE
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Charles E.W. Bean’s twelve-volume ''Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918'' (1921-1942) dominated Australian historiography of the Great War for four decades. The theme of the … READ MORE
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This article surveys New Zealand historiography of the First World War since 1918. It outlines the key frameworks studies have been pursued within, how these have developed over time and notes major … READ MORE
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Policymakers in the British Dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South Africa confronted the common questions about Indigenous service in the First World War but with diverse … READ MORE
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The First World War caused great upheavals within the Australian labour movement. The period 1914-1918 saw the highest national union membership being recorded alongside the greatest number of … READ MORE
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The First World War occupies a significant, though not uncontested place in the Australian imaginary. Australia’s literary engagement with the First World War began in 1914 and continues to the … READ MORE
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This article examines Australians’ attempts to make sense of a war on the other side of the world, in which they were involved primarily as a member of the British Empire. It interrogates the … READ MORE
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Almost all New Zealanders made sense of the Great War within the context of three interlocking communities of loyalty: their membership in the British Empire, the district in which they lived, and … READ MORE
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The First World War was a major negative shock for the Australian economy. Australia did little to mobilise economically for war and struggled with loss both of export markets and access to key … READ MORE
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World War I had a damaging effect on the economy. Although it stimulated new industries, some were not competitive. As an importer of labour, capital, and manufactured goods, and an exporter of … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
The post-war economy was shaped by wartime changes. Compensation issues for soldiers and their families loomed and played out against a backdrop of post-war volatility – a boom followed by a … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Australia’s Great War was both unifying and divisive. The Anzac legend that celebrated soldiers’ achievements fostered national pride and confidence, but the war widened fissures based on class, … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
This article examines the Australian press in the First World War. It concentrates on several key areas, in particular censorship, economic problems, war reporting and the media’s relationship with … READ MORE
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Newspapers were crucial in bringing news of the First World War to readers in New Zealand and readers avidly consumed the papers, often in freely accessible library reading rooms. The majority of the … READ MORE
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A self-governing dominion of white settlers within the British Empire, Australia planned to aid Britain against Germany and to defend its own shores against Japan before the First World War. … READ MORE
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Prisoners of war are central to the public memory of Australian involvement in the Second World War, but very little historical scholarship has been dedicated to the national experience of captivity … READ MORE
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Australian government propaganda was subordinate to state and federal recruiting bodies and thus was mainly tasked with maintaining enthusiasm for recruiting in one of the few countries that … READ MORE
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Christian churches in Australia were largely supportive of the war effort, seeing God and Empire in the same light. They promoted conscription, as well as various war charities, but became embroiled … READ MORE
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Australia made a limited contribution to the fields of science and technology during the First World War. Notwithstanding limitations posed by Australia’s great distance from the battlefront and … READ MORE
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Despite the rhetoric at the war’s outbreak of how Australia would stand united beside its British motherland, and in direct contrast to the public memory of World War I in Australia as an episode … READ MORE
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New Zealand was a very loyal British dominion. At the outbreak of the First World War, the great majority of its populace unhesitatingly put its support behind the “mother country” in its hour of … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Although Britain declared war on the Dominions’ behalf, Australia had its own war aims. The most important of these was the survival of the British Empire, which the vast majority of Australians … READ MORE
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Although popular memory in Australia places a large emphasis on the Gallipoli campaign in the history of the First World War, the Australian military contribution was much more extensive than one … READ MORE
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Between August 1914 and November 1918 approximately 102,000 New Zealand soldiers fought alongside Australian troops as part of the British army’s campaigns at Gallipoli in 1915, on the Western … READ MORE
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Throughout the First World War, there were significant new developments in the Commonwealth government taking on the responsibility of raising loans for the majority of the states. Australia also … READ MORE
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The official numbers of casualties suffered by the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in the First World War are underestimated in multiple categories. These official figures comprise the limited … READ MORE
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Australian women, although 20,000 kilometres away from the major war zones, were nonetheless deeply affected by the First World War. They mobilised for war in a number of ways: as nurses, doctors and … READ MORE
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New Zealand women became enmeshed in the Great War from its outset. Appealed to as women of the Empire and mothers of soldiers, they were expected to support the war effort, which they did both at … READ MORE
Regional Thematic
Encyclopedic Entries
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The Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, is the state war memorial of New South Wales. Fundraising for a memorial began during the war, but the memorial was not built until the early 1930s, opening … READ MORE
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On the outbreak of the First World War, the German presence in the Pacific, in particular its wireless transmitting stations, were seen as a strategic threat to both Britain and Australia. The … READ MORE
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Charles Bean was Australia’s official war correspondent who later wrote and edited the twelve-volume ''Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918'' and founded the Australian War … READ MORE
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World War I was not simply a conflict among European states but a global war of empires. The fighting took place not only in Europe, but also in Africa, Asia, and across the Middle East, and it … READ MORE
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Micronesia
By Niko Tillmann and Yuko Maezawa
Japanese interest in expansion into the South Pacific began in the 1870s. World War I provided a long sought after chance for the Japanese Imperial Navy to enhance its standing and gain a … READ MORE
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John Monash is probably the most celebrated Australian figure of the First World War. He commanded the 4th Brigade in Gallipoli, the 3rd Australian Division in Belgium in 1917, … READ MORE
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Keith Murdoch was an Australian journalist and newspaper proprietor. His Gallipoli Letter was highly critical of the Allied conduct of the Dardanelles Campaign. Later in World War I he worked as a … READ MORE
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Although they were remote from the metropoles and generally small, the Pacific Island colonies of the European powers were nevertheless drawn into the conflict, largely through the Allied campaign to … READ MORE
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This article examines the concept of war poetry and considers the range of poetic responses generated by the Great War from an international … READ MORE
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Wireless telegraphy became an integral part of warfare on the ground, in the air, and at sea by 1918. Wireless helped to make the war global, though historians still debate its impact on the course … READ MORE
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In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers emerged. The human losses of the First World War were largely mourned, honoured and remembered within … READ MORE
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The centenary of the First World War has been a catalyst for battlefield tourism. The creation of new museums, memorials, statues, commemorative trails and the like has strengthened the Great War’s … READ MORE
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The centenary of the First World War revealed palpable anxieties around a loss of connection to an event that was now 100 years old and without any living survivors. As a result, a good degree of … READ MORE
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The centenary events surrounding the First World War have produced a significant amount of digital content in various forms, and thus has set a precedent for how large scale post-war memorisation can … READ MORE
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Libraries (local, specialist, and national) contributed in numerous and important ways to commemorative activities during the centenary of the First World War. These included making use of their … READ MORE
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The commemorative period between 2014 and 2018 was marked globally by numerous exhibitions of original artworks that had been commissioned and created during and immediately after World War 1. Most … READ MORE
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Mass conscription recast relationships in families, raised minors’ potential as wage earners, and decreased supervision over them. War ravaged the health of young people in Central Europe while … READ MORE
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The First World War ushered in an unprecedented wave of commemorations. Mass death elicited a construction spree in memorial objects and sites across all countries and territories involved in the … READ MORE
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Total war is a controversial term used in the past by politicians, publicists and military officers as well as by computer specialists and academics in the present. Since its conception by French … READ MORE
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The extra-European theatres of World War I have received far less scholarly attention than the war in Europe. This state of affairs is hardly surprising given the sheer magnitude of the Western Front … READ MORE
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The rapid spread of epidemics ravaged military personnel and civilians in and outside Europe’s warzones during the Great War. Further, the great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 became a global … READ MORE
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There have been four generations of historical writing about the 1914-1918 war. The first was composed of contemporaries who either fought in the war or helped run it, and spanned the period … READ MORE
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By examining the origins, pathways, demographic impact and consequences for the public, the medical profession and governments, of the so-called “Spanish” influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, this … READ MORE
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What role do representations of the First World War play in media that reach a wide audience beyond the circle of experts? The following contribution focuses on this important question. Given the … READ MORE
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There is an ongoing debate among historians whether the First World War did in fact lead to drastic changes in migration and migration policies. The war certainly resulted in numerous severe … READ MORE
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This essay offers a comparative survey of the practice of military justice among several of the key belligerent powers. Accused soldiers enjoyed little in the way of legal protection, and punishment … READ MORE
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This article describes the lives and afterlives of the First World War museums in France, Russia, Germany, and in Britain and its Dominions Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In all these polities, … READ MORE
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The First World War created disfigured and mutilated bodies on a grand scale. Never before had the bodies of soldiers been so devastated by a conflict. Developments in established weapons such as … READ MORE
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The First World War represents a watershed in the history of war photography. It was the first conflict to be photographed in detail by all the participants and the first in which photography was … READ MORE
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Post-war economies were beset with problems, ultimately leading to the Great Depression that ruined the world economy and resulted in “beggar-thy-neighbour” national policies. Roosevelt’s … READ MORE
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The paper describes the impact of war on peasantry and its mobilisation in the war effort. While observers portrayed the countryside as rich and callous towards urban shortages or waging war, the … READ MORE
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A vast array of initiatives designed to counteract the destructiveness of the First World War was developed by states and societies across the world. Protecting the bodies and minds of soldiers from … READ MORE
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In nations where literacy was well-established by 1914, letter-writing was critical to the emotional well-being of soldiers and their families. Men in uniform often circumvented the censors and sent … READ MORE
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It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in favour of the war in 1914. The impact of modern weapons was not well understood and many people in the government, … READ MORE
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This article explores women’s economic, social, and political responses to the First World War. It addresses their mobilization including their engagement with the war effort as well as their … READ MORE
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Female war reporters from belligerent and neutral countries were present in the major war theatres in Europe and the Middle East throughout 1914 to 1918. While admission of journalists to the war … READ MORE
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Survey Articles (Regional)
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The impact of the First World War on Australia was so profound that its memory dominates the national political culture even today, in the form of the Anzac “legend.” The mass casualties suffered … READ MORE
Regional -
New Zealand was the British Dominion furthest from the conflict in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nonetheless with Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, New Zealand and its one million … READ MORE
Regional
Regional Thematic Articles
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This article briefly outlines the origins, development and significance of the Anzac legend for Australians since 1915. The initial reception of Anzac as symbolizing “the birth of a nation” is … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Artistic responses to Australia’s war effort were diverse and engaging. Soldiers sketching what they experienced of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign produced some of the earliest images of the conflict. … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
This article considers patterns of bereavement and mourning in Australia both during and immediately after the Great War. It argues that the conditions of modern warfare and sheer distance from the … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
This article examines bereavement and mourning in New Zealand during the First World War. Many thousands of New Zealand families were left bereft by the First World War. Their experience was … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
The attitudes and behaviours of men of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) were the consequence of them serving as volunteers in the particular circumstances of a distant and costly war. But they … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Their war experience changed the attitudes of New Zealand soldiers dramatically – from enthusiasm to a cynicism about war, from an identification with the British to a mateship with Australians, … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
From 2010-2020, Australia fielded the longest, most expensive, and arguably most complex Great War centenary of any combatant nation. It involved unprecedented investment from the state, but was also … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
There was a large investment of government funds in the centenary commemoration of the First World War in New Zealand. This resulted in big government projects such as the creation of the Pukeahu … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Civilians in the Australian government contended with two types of military power in the Great War: generals of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), and British army military commanders and the War … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
The memory of the First World War has played a prominent role in Australian political culture. The Anzac legend, originating in the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, soon became the foundational narrative of … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Anzac Day is the primary method of New Zealand public engagement with the Great War. Commemorating the failed Anzac Landings of April 1915, New Zealand's Anzac Day has, in the years since then, been … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Conscription was the most divisive issue in Australian politics during the First World War. The expeditionary force which the Australian government offered to Britain in August 1914 was composed only … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
The dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and South Africa shared an ambiguous constitutional relationship with Britain. The self-governing dominions were free to implement their … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
This article considers the experiences of New Zealand soldiers on leave in Britain. In particular it focuses on the efforts of voluntary organizations like the YMCA to construct London as a ‘home … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Australian cinema experienced a war of two halves during 1914-1918. The start was dominated by war dramas funded through private enterprise, telling sensational stories largely derived from British … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Food grown and produced in Australia during World War I was used to provision the nation’s troops in training and on ships to the theatres of war, and to supply imperial needs on the battlefront, … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
The Commonwealth of Australia, a self-governing Dominion of the British Empire, experienced splits during the Great War in the major parties of both the left and right. The Australian Labor Party, in … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
New Zealand’s wartime parliament was dominated by a coalition between the two main parties, Reform and Liberal. Labour parliamentarians opposed the coalition and the war was a significant factor in … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Charles E.W. Bean’s twelve-volume ''Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918'' (1921-1942) dominated Australian historiography of the Great War for four decades. The theme of the … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
This article surveys New Zealand historiography of the First World War since 1918. It outlines the key frameworks studies have been pursued within, how these have developed over time and notes major … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Policymakers in the British Dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South Africa confronted the common questions about Indigenous service in the First World War but with diverse … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
The First World War caused great upheavals within the Australian labour movement. The period 1914-1918 saw the highest national union membership being recorded alongside the greatest number of … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
The First World War occupies a significant, though not uncontested place in the Australian imaginary. Australia’s literary engagement with the First World War began in 1914 and continues to the … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
This article examines Australians’ attempts to make sense of a war on the other side of the world, in which they were involved primarily as a member of the British Empire. It interrogates the … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Almost all New Zealanders made sense of the Great War within the context of three interlocking communities of loyalty: their membership in the British Empire, the district in which they lived, and … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
The First World War was a major negative shock for the Australian economy. Australia did little to mobilise economically for war and struggled with loss both of export markets and access to key … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
World War I had a damaging effect on the economy. Although it stimulated new industries, some were not competitive. As an importer of labour, capital, and manufactured goods, and an exporter of … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
The post-war economy was shaped by wartime changes. Compensation issues for soldiers and their families loomed and played out against a backdrop of post-war volatility – a boom followed by a … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Australia’s Great War was both unifying and divisive. The Anzac legend that celebrated soldiers’ achievements fostered national pride and confidence, but the war widened fissures based on class, … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
This article examines the Australian press in the First World War. It concentrates on several key areas, in particular censorship, economic problems, war reporting and the media’s relationship with … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Newspapers were crucial in bringing news of the First World War to readers in New Zealand and readers avidly consumed the papers, often in freely accessible library reading rooms. The majority of the … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
A self-governing dominion of white settlers within the British Empire, Australia planned to aid Britain against Germany and to defend its own shores against Japan before the First World War. … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Prisoners of war are central to the public memory of Australian involvement in the Second World War, but very little historical scholarship has been dedicated to the national experience of captivity … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Australian government propaganda was subordinate to state and federal recruiting bodies and thus was mainly tasked with maintaining enthusiasm for recruiting in one of the few countries that … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Christian churches in Australia were largely supportive of the war effort, seeing God and Empire in the same light. They promoted conscription, as well as various war charities, but became embroiled … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Australia made a limited contribution to the fields of science and technology during the First World War. Notwithstanding limitations posed by Australia’s great distance from the battlefront and … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Despite the rhetoric at the war’s outbreak of how Australia would stand united beside its British motherland, and in direct contrast to the public memory of World War I in Australia as an episode … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
New Zealand was a very loyal British dominion. At the outbreak of the First World War, the great majority of its populace unhesitatingly put its support behind the “mother country” in its hour of … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Although Britain declared war on the Dominions’ behalf, Australia had its own war aims. The most important of these was the survival of the British Empire, which the vast majority of Australians … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Although popular memory in Australia places a large emphasis on the Gallipoli campaign in the history of the First World War, the Australian military contribution was much more extensive than one … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Between August 1914 and November 1918 approximately 102,000 New Zealand soldiers fought alongside Australian troops as part of the British army’s campaigns at Gallipoli in 1915, on the Western … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Throughout the First World War, there were significant new developments in the Commonwealth government taking on the responsibility of raising loans for the majority of the states. Australia also … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
The official numbers of casualties suffered by the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in the First World War are underestimated in multiple categories. These official figures comprise the limited … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
Australian women, although 20,000 kilometres away from the major war zones, were nonetheless deeply affected by the First World War. They mobilised for war in a number of ways: as nurses, doctors and … READ MORE
Regional Thematic -
New Zealand women became enmeshed in the Great War from its outset. Appealed to as women of the Empire and mothers of soldiers, they were expected to support the war effort, which they did both at … READ MORE
Regional Thematic
Encyclopedic Entries
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The Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, is the state war memorial of New South Wales. Fundraising for a memorial began during the war, but the memorial was not built until the early 1930s, opening … READ MORE
Entry -
On the outbreak of the First World War, the German presence in the Pacific, in particular its wireless transmitting stations, were seen as a strategic threat to both Britain and Australia. The … READ MORE
Entry -
Charles Bean was Australia’s official war correspondent who later wrote and edited the twelve-volume ''Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918'' and founded the Australian War … READ MORE
Entry -
World War I was not simply a conflict among European states but a global war of empires. The fighting took place not only in Europe, but also in Africa, Asia, and across the Middle East, and it … READ MORE
Entry -
Micronesia
By Niko Tillmann and Yuko Maezawa
Japanese interest in expansion into the South Pacific began in the 1870s. World War I provided a long sought after chance for the Japanese Imperial Navy to enhance its standing and gain a … READ MORE
Entry -
John Monash is probably the most celebrated Australian figure of the First World War. He commanded the 4th Brigade in Gallipoli, the 3rd Australian Division in Belgium in 1917, … READ MORE
Entry -
Keith Murdoch was an Australian journalist and newspaper proprietor. His Gallipoli Letter was highly critical of the Allied conduct of the Dardanelles Campaign. Later in World War I he worked as a … READ MORE
Entry -
Although they were remote from the metropoles and generally small, the Pacific Island colonies of the European powers were nevertheless drawn into the conflict, largely through the Allied campaign to … READ MORE
Entry -
This article examines the concept of war poetry and considers the range of poetic responses generated by the Great War from an international … READ MORE
Entry -
Wireless telegraphy became an integral part of warfare on the ground, in the air, and at sea by 1918. Wireless helped to make the war global, though historians still debate its impact on the course … READ MORE
Entry