First drafts of history: Rediscovering Victoria's war correspondents
Discover the story of Victoria's pioneering war correspondents in this thought-provoking video from our Making Public Histories seminar series.
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Discover the story of Victoria's pioneering war correspondents in this thought-provoking video from our Making Public Histories seminar series.
Watch this 2015 Family History Feast talk presented by Daniel Wilksch, on soldier settlement in Victoria after WWI.
Watch this 2015 Family History Feast talk presented by Grace Baliviera, on WWI records held at the National Archives of Australia.
Watch this 2015 Family History Feast presentation, as Dr Kirsty Harris discusses resources for locating Australian nurses in WWI.
Share the experiences of a front-line soldier, brought to life in this reading of Eric Chinner's WWI letters home.
See words and pictures from the WWI diaries of nurse Alice Kitchen, who sailed with the AIF's first convoy.
Watch our short film featuring extracts from the history-making 'Gallipoli letter' written by Sir Keith Murdoch in 1915.
Watch our short film drawn from the WWI writings, drawings and photograph album of Brighton-born artist Jessie Traill.
See images from the front sent home to his students back home by teacher Percival Langford.
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