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Reading on a Rainy Day, 1811 (Wikimedia Commons/McGill Library/George Mills)
- Glen Davis on an episode in the anti-conscription and Vietnam War campaign, Melbourne, 1960s (17 December 2018).
- Ian Lilley and Celmara Pocock in The Conversation on the lack of Australian Indigenous sites in the world heritage listing (17 December 2018).
- David Stephens has an appreciation of Paul Daley’s book, On Patriotism (17 December 2018).
- David Stephens reviews the After the War exhibition at the Australian War Memorial (13 December 2018).
- Melanie Clark on Indigenous Australians and Australian war memory (12 December 2018).
- Norman Abjorensen reviews Elections Matter: Ten Federal Elections that Shaped Australia, edited by Jones, Bongiorno and Uhr (9 December 2018).
- Frank Bongiorno in Sydney Review of Books reviews Phillipa McGuinness’s book on the year 2001 (5 December 2018).
- Nick Miller in Fairfax on disappointing visitor numbers at the Monash Centre, Villers-Bretonneux (5 December 2018).
- John A. Moses on the management of history education in totalitarian regimes (4 December 2018).
- Emil Jeyaratnam in The Conversation on some charts on race and racism in Australia (29 November 2018).
- David Stephens asks why the Council of the Australian War Memorial looks so unlike the people of Australia (28 November 2018).
- Gary Werskey reviews Margaret Hutchison’s Painting War: A History of Australia’s First World War Art Scheme (28 November 2018).
- Andrew Richardson reviews Jeff Grey: A Life in History, edited by Peter Stanley (27 November 2018).
- Bruce Haigh in Independent Australia on how the Anzac myth has been ransacked by the Right (25 November 2018).
- David Stephens reviews Living in Hope, a Stolen Generations memoir from Frank Byrne (22 November 2018).
- Henry Reynolds in Meanjin (blog) on the War Memorial and the Frontier Wars (22 November 2018).
- Peter Stanley in Fairfax on why the War Memorial must remain sacred (22 November 2018).
- Effie Karageorgos in The Conversation on rethinking the image of the Australian Digger (21 November 2018).
- Geoff Davies in Pearls and Irritations on Lest we also forget (20 November 2018).
- Sleight of hand as War Memorial argues why it should not commemorate the Frontier Wars (19 November 2018).
- Donations from arms makers: accountability at the Australian War Memorial (18 November 2018).
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