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Discover Australia’s wartime past through personal and historical perspectives. Family historian Jo Callaghan reveals how military service records can uncover powerful family stories, while military social historian Prof. Peter Stanley explores the texture of everyday life in Australia from 1939 to 1945. Together, they bring to life the personal and national experiences that shaped a generation.
Before television dominated popular media from the early 1970s, colourful magazines were an ever-present fixture on the coffee tables and in canteens and waiting rooms across Australia
The backs of Sidney Nolan’s paintings reveal an intriguing body of historical information