The impact of the First World War on Australia was so profound that its memory d…
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Survey Articles (Regional)
Regional
Australia
By Joan Beaumont
Regional Thematic Articles
Regional Thematic
Anzac (Australia)
By Graham Seal
This article briefly outlines the origins, development and significance of the A…
Regional Thematic
Art (Australia)
By Margaret Hutchison
Artistic responses to Australia’s war effort were diverse and engaging. Soldiers…
Regional Thematic
Bereavement and Mourning (Australia)
By Bruce Scates
This article considers patterns of bereavement and mourning in Australia both du…
Regional Thematic
Between Acceptance and Refusal - Soldiers' Attitudes Towards War (Australia)
By Peter Stanley
The attitudes and behaviours of men of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) were …
Regional Thematic
Centenary (Australia)
By Bruce Scates
From 2010-2020, Australia fielded the longest, most expensive, and arguably most…
Regional Thematic
Civilian and Military Power (Australia)
By John Connor
Civilians in the Australian government contended with two types of military powe…
Regional Thematic
Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen (Australia)
By Joan Beaumont
The memory of the First World War has played a prominent role in Australian poli…
Regional Thematic
Conscription (Australia)
By Joan Beaumont
Conscription was the most divisive issue in Australian politics during the First…
Regional Thematic
Dominions’ Military Relationship to Great Britain 1902-1914 (British Dominions)
By Steve Marti
The dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and South Africa …
Regional Thematic
Film/Cinema (Australia)
By Daniel Reynaud
Australian cinema experienced a war of two halves during 1914-1918. The start wa…
Regional Thematic
Food and Nutrition (Australia)
By Judith Smart
Food grown and produced in Australia during World War I was used to provision th…
Regional Thematic
Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Australia)
By John Connor
The Commonwealth of Australia, a self-governing Dominion of the British Empire, …
Regional Thematic
Historiography 1918-Today (Australia)
By Carolyn Holbrook
Charles E.W. Bean’s twelve-volume Official History of Australia in the War of 19…
Regional Thematic
Indigenous Experience of War (British Dominions)
By Noah Riseman, Timothy C. Winegard
Policymakers in the British Dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Ze…
Regional Thematic
Labour Movements, Trade Unions and Strikes (Australia)
By Nathan Wise
The First World War caused great upheavals within the Australian labour movement…
Regional Thematic
Literature (Australia)
By Christina Spittel
The First World War occupies a significant, though not uncontested place in the …
Regional Thematic
Making Sense of the War (Australia)
By Bart Ziino
This article examines Australians’ attempts to make sense of a war on the other …
Regional Thematic
Organization of War Economies (Australia)
By Peter Yule
The First World War was a major negative shock for the Australian economy. Austr…
Regional Thematic
Post-war Economies (Australia)
By Frank Bongiorno
World War I had a damaging effect on the economy. Although it stimulated new ind…
Regional Thematic
Post-war Societies (Australia)
By Frank Bongiorno
Australia’s Great War was both unifying and divisive. The Anzac legend that cele…
Regional Thematic
Press/Journalism (Australia)
By Richard Trembath
This article examines the Australian press in the First World War. It concentrat…
Regional Thematic
Pre-war Military Planning (Australia)
By Craig Wilcox
A self-governing dominion of white settlers within the British Empire, Australia…
Regional Thematic
Prisoners of War (Australia)
By Aaron Pegram
Prisoners of war are central to the public memory of Australian involvement in t…
Regional Thematic
Propaganda at Home (Australia)
By Emily Robertson
Australian government propaganda was subordinate to state and federal recruiting…
Regional Thematic
Religion (Australia)
By Daniel Reynaud
Christian churches in Australia were largely supportive of the war effort, seein…
Regional Thematic
Science and Technology (Australia)
By Eric Endacott
Australia made a limited contribution to the fields of science and technology du…
Regional Thematic
Social Conflict and Control, Protest and Repression (Australia)
By Martin Crotty
Despite the rhetoric at the war’s outbreak of how Australia would stand united b…
Regional Thematic
War Aims and War Aims Discussions (Australia)
By Joan Beaumont
Although Britain declared war on the Dominions’ behalf, Australia had its own wa…
Regional Thematic
Warfare 1914-1918 (Australia)
By William Westerman
Although popular memory in Australia places a large emphasis on the Gallipoli ca…
Regional Thematic
War Finance (Australia)
By Jatinder Mann
Throughout the First World War, there were significant new developments in the C…
Regional Thematic
War Losses (Australia)
By David C. Noonan
The official numbers of casualties suffered by the Australian Imperial Force (AI…
Regional Thematic
Women’s Mobilisation for War (Australia)
By Rae Frances
Australian women, although 20,000 kilometres away from the major war zones, were…
Encyclopedic Entries
Entry
Anzac Memorial, Sydney
By Jennifer Wellington
The Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, is the state war memorial of New South …
Entry
Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
By Philip Payton
On the outbreak of the First World War, the German presence in the Pacific, in p…
Entry
Charles Bean
By Aaron Pegram
Charles Bean was Australia’s official war correspondent who later wrote and edit…
Entry
Empire
By Erez Manela
World War I was not simply a conflict among European states but a global war of …
Entry
Monash, John
By Aaron Pegram
John Monash is probably the most celebrated Australian figure of the First World…
Entry
Murdoch, Keith Arthur, Sir
By Richard Trembath
Keith Murdoch was an Australian journalist and newspaper proprietor. His Gallipo…
Entry
War Poetry
By Jane Potter
This article examines the concept of war poetry and considers the range of poeti…
Entry
Wireless Telegraphy
By Heidi J.S. Tworek
Wireless telegraphy became an integral part of warfare on the ground, in the air…
See Also
Thematic
Bereavement and Mourning
By Manfred Hettling, Tino Schölz
In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …
Thematic
Centenary (Battlefield Tourism)
By Romain Fathi
The centenary of the First World War has been a catalyst for battlefield tourism…
Thematic
Centenary (Education, Pedagogy, Youth Programs)
By Catriona Pennell
The centenary of the First World War revealed palpable anxieties around a loss o…
Thematic
Centenary (Internet)
By Lorna M. Hughes, Ian G. Anderson
The centenary events surrounding the First World War have produced a significant…
Thematic
Centenary (Libraries)
By Matthew Shaw
Libraries (local, specialist, and national) contributed in numerous and importan…
Thematic
Centenary (Visual Arts)
By Paul Gough
The commemorative period between 2014 and 2018 was marked globally by numerous e…
Thematic
Children and Youth
By Andrew Donson
Mass conscription recast relationships in families, raised minors’ potential as …
Thematic
Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen
By Stéphane Tison
The First World War ushered in an unprecedented wave of commemorations. Mass dea…
Thematic
Controversy: Total War
By Daniel Marc Segesser
Total war is a controversial term used in the past by politicians, publicists an…
Thematic
Extra-European Theatres of War
By Michelle Moyd
The extra-European theatres of World War I have received far less scholarly atte…
Thematic
Historiography 1918-Today
By Jay Winter
There have been four generations of historical writing about the 1914-1918 war. …
Thematic
League of Nations
By Anita Ziegerhofer
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, the same day on which the L…
Thematic
Memory of the War: Popular Memory 1918-1945, 1945 to the Present
By Susanne Brandt
What role do representations of the First World War play in media that reach a w…
Thematic
Migration and Mobility
By Marlou Schrover
There is an ongoing debate among historians whether the First World War did in f…
Thematic
Military Justice
By Steven R. Welch
This essay offers a comparative survey of the practice of military justice among…
Thematic
Museums
By Jennifer Wellington, Aaron Cohen, Anne Hertzog, Susanne Brandt
This article describes the lives and afterlives of the First World War museums i…
Thematic
Mutilation and Disfiguration
By Julie Anderson
The First World War created disfigured and mutilated bodies on a grand scale. Ne…
Thematic
Photography
By Hilary Roberts
The First World War represents a watershed in the history of war photography. It…
Thematic
Post-war Economies
By Dietmar Rothermund
Post-war economies were beset with problems, ultimately leading to the Great Dep…
Thematic
Rural Society
By Matteo Ermacora
The paper describes the impact of war on peasantry and its mobilisation in the w…
Thematic
State, Civil Society and Relief Organizations for War
By Branden Little
A vast array of initiatives designed to counteract the destructiveness of the Fi…
Thematic
War Letters: Communication between Front and Home Front
By Martha Hanna
In nations where literacy was well-established by 1914, letter-writing was criti…
Thematic
Willingly to War. Public Response to the Outbreak of War
By Jean-Jacques Becker
It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in fav…
Thematic
Women’s Mobilization for War
By Susan R. Grayzel
This article explores women’s economic, social, and political responses to the F…
Thematic
Women War Reporters
By Stephanie Seul
Female war reporters from belligerent and neutral countries were present in the …
