The impact of the First World War on Australia was so profound that its memory d…

New Zealand was the British Dominion furthest from the conflict in Europe, the M…

This article briefly outlines the origins, development and significance of the A…

Artistic responses to Australia’s war effort were diverse and engaging. Soldiers…

This article considers patterns of bereavement and mourning in Australia both du…

This article examines bereavement and mourning in New Zealand during the First W…

The attitudes and behaviours of men of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) were …

Their war experience changed the attitudes of New Zealand soldiers dramatically …

From 2010-2020, Australia fielded the longest, most expensive, and arguably most…

There was a large investment of government funds in the centenary commemoration …

Civilians in the Australian government contended with two types of military powe…

The memory of the First World War has played a prominent role in Australian poli…

Anzac Day is the primary method of New Zealand public engagement with the Great …

Conscription was the most divisive issue in Australian politics during the First…

The dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and South Africa …

This article considers the experiences of New Zealand soldiers on leave in Brita…

Australian cinema experienced a war of two halves during 1914-1918. The start wa…

Food grown and produced in Australia during World War I was used to provision th…

The Commonwealth of Australia, a self-governing Dominion of the British Empire, …

New Zealand’s wartime parliament was dominated by a coalition between the two ma…

Charles E.W. Bean’s twelve-volume Official History of Australia in the War of 19…

This article surveys New Zealand historiography of the First World War since 191…

Policymakers in the British Dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Ze…

The First World War caused great upheavals within the Australian labour movement…

The First World War occupies a significant, though not uncontested place in the …

This article examines Australians’ attempts to make sense of a war on the other …

Almost all New Zealanders made sense of the Great War within the context of thre…

The First World War was a major negative shock for the Australian economy. Austr…

World War I had a damaging effect on the economy. Although it stimulated new ind…

The post-war economy was shaped by wartime changes. Compensation issues for sold…

Australia’s Great War was both unifying and divisive. The Anzac legend that cele…

This article examines the Australian press in the First World War. It concentrat…

Newspapers were crucial in bringing news of the First World War to readers in Ne…

A self-governing dominion of white settlers within the British Empire, Australia…

Prisoners of war are central to the public memory of Australian involvement in t…

Australian government propaganda was subordinate to state and federal recruiting…

Christian churches in Australia were largely supportive of the war effort, seein…

Australia made a limited contribution to the fields of science and technology du…

Despite the rhetoric at the war’s outbreak of how Australia would stand united b…

New Zealand was a very loyal British dominion. At the outbreak of the First Worl…

Although Britain declared war on the Dominions’ behalf, Australia had its own wa…

Although popular memory in Australia places a large emphasis on the Gallipoli ca…

Between August 1914 and November 1918 approximately 102,000 New Zealand soldiers…

Throughout the First World War, there were significant new developments in the C…

The official numbers of casualties suffered by the Australian Imperial Force (AI…

Australian women, although 20,000 kilometres away from the major war zones, were…

New Zealand women became enmeshed in the Great War from its outset. Appealed to …

The Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, is the state war memorial of New South …

On the outbreak of the First World War, the German presence in the Pacific, in p…

Charles Bean was Australia’s official war correspondent who later wrote and edit…

World War I was not simply a conflict among European states but a global war of …

Japanese interest in expansion into the South Pacific began in the 1870s. World …

John Monash is probably the most celebrated Australian figure of the First World…

Keith Murdoch was an Australian journalist and newspaper proprietor. His Gallipo…

Although they were remote from the metropoles and generally small, the Pacific I…

This article examines the concept of war poetry and considers the range of poeti…

Wireless telegraphy became an integral part of warfare on the ground, in the air…

In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …

The centenary of the First World War has been a catalyst for battlefield tourism…

The centenary of the First World War revealed palpable anxieties around a loss o…

The centenary events surrounding the First World War have produced a significant…

Libraries (local, specialist, and national) contributed in numerous and importan…

The commemorative period between 2014 and 2018 was marked globally by numerous e…

Mass conscription recast relationships in families, raised minors’ potential as …

The First World War ushered in an unprecedented wave of commemorations. Mass dea…

Total war is a controversial term used in the past by politicians, publicists an…

The extra-European theatres of World War I have received far less scholarly atte…

The rapid spread of epidemics ravaged military personnel and civilians in and ou…

There have been four generations of historical writing about the 1914-1918 war. …

By examining the origins, pathways, demographic impact and consequences for the …

The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, the same day on which the L…

What role do representations of the First World War play in media that reach a w…

There is an ongoing debate among historians whether the First World War did in f…

This essay offers a comparative survey of the practice of military justice among…

This article describes the lives and afterlives of the First World War museums i…

The First World War created disfigured and mutilated bodies on a grand scale. Ne…

The First World War represents a watershed in the history of war photography. It…

Post-war economies were beset with problems, ultimately leading to the Great Dep…

The paper describes the impact of war on peasantry and its mobilisation in the w…

A vast array of initiatives designed to counteract the destructiveness of the Fi…

In nations where literacy was well-established by 1914, letter-writing was criti…

It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in fav…

This article explores women’s economic, social, and political responses to the F…

Female war reporters from belligerent and neutral countries were present in the …