ISSN: 2202-5561 © Heritage Guardians advice to readers intending to provide feedback to the Australian War Memorial on heritage aspects of the Memorial’s $498m extensions project The Memorial has placed on its website a mass of documentation on the extensions…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © This is our first newsletter for more than four months and, indeed, our first for 2020 but, with one thing and another, it has been a hectic year. Recently on honesthistory.net.au, we expose the nonsensical claim that…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Hanukkah Sameach, Happy Holidays to all our readers, whether new, old, or rusted on! Honest History is not sending Christmas cards this year but is making donations to the Fitzroy Learning Network and…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © Heritage Guardians campaign against the unnecessary and ill-considered $498m extensions to the Australian War Memorial: contact your federal MP and ask them to oppose this project New on the Honest History website The War Memorial’s Mitchell ‘garage’, political…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © Heritage Guardians campaign against the unnecessary and ill-considered $498m extensions to the Australian War Memorial: contact your federal MP and ask them to oppose this project Latest from the campaign: two detailed papers from former War Memorial…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © Heritage Guardians campaign against the unnecessary and ill-considered $498m extensions to the Australian War Memorial: contact your federal MP or candidate and ask them to oppose this project New on the Honest History site David Stephens reviews…

ISSN: 2202-5561© Community campaign against the proposed $498 million extensions to the Australian War Memorial [WE ARE RUNNING THIS AGAIN TO REMIND READERS THAT THIS CAMPAIGN IS STILL RUNNING. AS THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN COMES TO AN END, PLEASE CONSIDER WRITING…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the Honest History site (honesthistory.net.au) John Curtin’s War leaves questions unanswered, despite John Edwards’ best efforts: a book review by David Stephens John Edwards’ two volumes, together nearly 900 pages plus notes and bibliography, are…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year to all! New on the Honest History website An appreciation by David Stephens of Paul Daley’s new book On Patriotism. Is there hope for a future where Australian patriotism…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © Honest History symposium, ANU, Canberra, 8 November Need to get a ticket soon (just $12.31) to be sure of a place. Booking and program. ‘Presenting, choosing, measuring, changing history’. With Frank Bongiorno, Michael Brissenden, Alison Broinowski, Pamela Burton,…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © Honest History marks five years with a symposium in Canberra ‘Presenting, choosing, measuring, changing history’: an Honest History symposium in conjunction with the Australian National University, Law Lecture Theatre, ANU, Canberra, Thursday, 8 November 2018 With Frank…

‘Presenting, choosing, measuring, changing history’ An Honest History symposium in conjunction with the Australian National University Law Lecture Theatre, ANU, Canberra Thursday, 8 November 2018 Frank Bongiorno, Michael Brissenden, Alison Broinowski, Pamela Burton, Michael Cooney, Shaun Crowe, Paul Daley, Emily…

ISSN: 2202-5561 Honest History’s submission to the parliamentary inquiry into Canberra’s national institutions – and the latest on the War Memorial’s proposed $500m extension New book reviews at honesthistory.net.au Mark McKenna reviews Griffith Review 60 First Things First Meredith Lake’s…

ISSN: 2202-5561 New at honesthistory.net.au Brendan Nelson’s bunker and with cap in hand: contrasts in funding our national cultural institutions Lest We Forget again: Anzac Day is an opportunity to confront our violent frontier past and its shadow today, writes…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the Honest History site Honest History in 2018 – and possibly beyond: a prospectus from HH HQ The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, The Settlers and the Protectors: Ben Wilkie reviews Bain Attwood’s new book…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New and recently on the Honest History website: original material, book reviews, links, announcements Banking Royal Commissions: a look back at the 1935-37 model The second First Lady, the pretend colonel, and the dogs of Ottawa: some alternative…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New and recently on the Honest History website: original material, book reviews, links Michael Piggott reviews Ross McMullin’s new book, Pompey Elliott at War: In His Own Words. Kristen Alexander reviews Clare Makepeace’s new book, Captives of War: British…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © The Honest History Book The Honest History Book, published in early April, is still selling well, has been favourably reviewed in a number of places (including by Anna Clark below), and is now in its second print.…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © The Honest History Book: now into its second printing New on the Honest History website The generations of us: exploring interactions, overlaps and inflections: Michael Piggott reviews Australian Lives: an Intimate History, edited by Anisa Puri and Alistair Thomson…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © The Honest History Book New on the Honest History website Democratic opposition to war: the 1916-17 anti-conscription campaigns: Barry Jones’ keynote speech to the Brunswick-Coburg conscription conference, 20 May Honest History’s Alternative Guide to the Australian War…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © The Honest History Book is now well and truly launched (and sailing very well) New on the Honest History website Events like ‘Yassmin-gate’ are inherent in our often politically-driven sentimentality about war memory: Roger Markwick (University of…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © The Honest History Book Launches: Canberra, 6 April; Sydney, 12 April; Melbourne, 20 April About the book, including Advance praise ‘This is collective history at its finest.’ (Melanie Oppenheimer, Flinders University) ______________ New on the Honest History website…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © The Honest History Book is being published in April: read about it; pre-order Professor Frank Bongiorno is the new president of the Honest History association New at honesthistory.net.au Alternative facts? The Australian War Memorial still has trouble counting…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © SEASON’S GREETINGS This is our final newsletter for 2016. Our next edition will be around the end of January. Meanwhile, we wish all readers, followers and fellow-travellers the very best for Christmas, Hanukkah, Hogmanay, Mohammed’s birthday, New…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © Special edition for Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Australian War Memorial The Honest History book is coming in April 2017; donate to UNSW Press Literary Fund New on the Honest History site…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the Honest History website (honesthistory.net.au) Honest History: Beyond Anzackery: announcing the Honest History book due out in April 2017 ‘Awkward humility’: the speeches of Brendan Nelson (Part I: Thrice more with feeling): David Stephens writes Turks did the…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the Honest History website (honesthistory.net.au) ‘Anzackery’ defined in new edition of the Australian National Dictionary: Bruce Moore writes Press baron Lord Northcliffe (egged on by Keith Murdoch) talks up the Anzacs after Pozières: Honest History document From…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on site ALLIANCES AND IMPLICATIONS Is this the most sycophantic speech by an Australian prime minister? David Stephens does the analysis. Divided sunburnt country: Australia 1916-18 (6): ‘I didn’t raise my son to be a soldier’. Peter…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on site Keepers of the flame. Why do the people who control our war memorials look so unlike the rest of us and why does this matter? Divided sunburnt country: Australia 1916-18. A century on, how much will…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the site Honest History’s Alternative Guide to the Australian War Memorial: context and contestability Across the sea to Ireland: Australians and the Easter Rising 1916: highlights reel Rush delivery from Ankara: building the Ataturk Memorial in…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the site In the matter of Agent Orange: Vietnam veterans versus the Australian War Memorial. Jacqueline Bird describes a 20 year struggle to properly tell the story of servicemen’s exposure to chemicals in Vietnam. Constructing nationalism:…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New Singing country: the musical legacy of David Morrison, Australian of the Year – and a straw in the wind? A story about John Schumann’s song ‘On every Anzac Day’ and what it means for recognition of Indigenous…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the site There is a new Minister for the Centenary of Anzac. Will he be too busy with his other jobs to do the Anzac job properly? David Stephens writes. Seeking him here, there and everywhere.…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © Centenary Watch: an open letter from Honest History to the new Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of Anzac Since our last newsletter the government has changed and so has the Minister Assisting the Prime…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the site https://honesthistory.net.au/ Freedom and the Australian War Memorial: is Honest History not a force for good? Wilfred Burchett (in Moscow and out of it) recalled by Rupert Lockwood: highlights reel (I) Clive James' book…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the site (https://honesthistory.net.au/) Hiroshima-Nagasaki 70 and Lone Pine 100: images for two anniversaries History of unrest and turmoil: Barbara Carol Heaton on coal miners during World War II Hands on History kids program pulls some…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the site https://www.honesthistory.net.au/ Money, Monash and motive: DVA, the Public Works Committee and 'an international standard interpretive centre' in France (Immersion I of II) Sideways towards conscription: WM Hughes and the War Census of 1915…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the site https://honesthistory.net.au/ Getting right with Vietnam: some myth-busting is needed Ataturk in the City of Hume: an exchange of correspondence Anzac and Anzackery: David Stephens contrasts the ideal and the caricature Sex on the…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the site Asking difficult questions: two major Anzac speeches from Douglas Newton (author of Hell-Bent: Australia’s Leap into the Great War) VDs as well as VCs: Diane Bell reviews Raden Dunbar’s probing book The Secrets…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the site https://honesthistory.net.au/ Women’s power to stop war: Margaret Bearlin on the 100th anniversary of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Gallipoli 1915: a century on: Peter Stanley reports on the Australian War Memorial-ANU…

ISSN: 2202-5561 (c) New on the site Defining Moments lets people decide on our national stories (plural): National Museum of Australia Is this ‘our story’? Another look at the Australian War Memorial’s refurbished galleries and what lies beneath Words in the trenches:…

ISSN: 2202-5561 © New on the site (honesthistory.net.au) Anzac’s unauthorised biographer talks at ADFA Summer School: Carolyn Holbrook Cowardice: A Brief History: Chris Walsh’s book reviewed by Diane Bell Indigenous tactics in the Frontier Wars: Ray Kerkhove explains A family viewpoint on Anzackery: former soldier David…

ISSN:2202-5561 © This is our final newsletter for 2014. We resume newsletters again early in February. We will still be updating the site regularly; subscribe to our RSS Feed to get advice of updates or simply browse the site, particularly under…

ISSN:2202-5561 © New on Honest History website: https://honesthistory.net.au Does arms spending lead to war? we ask questions about the links over fifty years between Australian spending on arms imports and our commitments to wars Honest History is a cause, not a…

ISSN:2202-5561 © New on our website honesthistory.net.au Defining moments and strands of our history: we compare notes with the National Museum of Australia Is Gallipoli at risk of disastrous bushfires? Peter Stanley reports; Guardian Australia Family focus allows better remembrance: Richard Reid writes…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Not just a newsletter, also a website; these are new Loyalty long ago and honesty today: Pamela Burton on claims that Dr John Burton was a spy Pioneering writing on the Frontier Wars: Humphrey McQueen (1973, 1977 and 1981) Blokes…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Not only a newsletter but also a website, with these new items: And the war came (rapidly): the Australian press in the final, nervous days before the Great War Kokoda revisionism: does it matter that we were not outnumbered? Anthony…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2014 Not only a newsletter but also a website … with these new items The Simpson Prize: civics education or proper history for Years 9 and 10? NAIDOC Week and Indigenous warriors: copping out or playing it carefully? Anzac and…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2014 Not only a newsletter but also a website New on honesthistory.net.au Battlefield tourism: Paul Daley (author, columnist with Guardian Australia) brings a different perspective; haunting photographs by Mike Bowers (ABC Insiders) True face of war: Kerry Neale…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2014 Not only a newsletter but also a website New on honesthistory.net.au Alison Broinowski: fascism and Malcolm Fraser’s new book on us and our allies Ben Wadham: camouflage and our national identity (illustrated Amy Hamilton) Tom O’Lincoln‘s…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2014 New on the site  Alternative Anzac: Remembering and Healing in Lismore models a peaceful world Alison Broinowski on some exotic characters with Australian connections New members join the Honest History committee Paddy Gourley on a defence spending…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2014 New at honesthistory.net.au Judy Hemming (UC) and Michael McKinley (ANU) on the recent history of drones: military breakthrough? civilian boon? implications for Australia? Glenda Sluga (USyd) on the European reception for Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers: an historian’s interpretation of…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2014 Donate to Honest History: Pay Pal now available Write for Honest History: contact us to ask how Follow us on Twitter @honesthistory1 New on honesthistory.net.au The Honest History committee addresses honesty and dishonesty Doug Hynd on…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2014 Donate to Honest History: a force for good; Pay Pal now available Write for Honest History: contact us to ask how New on the website Michael Piggott reviews the Anzac Voices exhibition at the Australian War…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2014 NEW on the HONEST HISTORY website Hugh White from ANU writes and talks about Australians’ attitude to war and how it has got us into awkward situations in the past and may do so again in…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2014 A Happy New Year to all our readers. New on the website is a note on the announcement by Education Minister Chris Pyne of a review of the national curriculum. Honest History and many others had anticipated…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2014 New content at Honest History since last e-Newsletter Subscribers will have received our special Newsletter recording the official website launch, and pointing to Paul Daley’s launch speech exploring how authors deal with myths, linking this to…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2013 Website launch The new Honest History website (www.honesthistory.net.au) will be launched by Paul Daley, journalist and author (Beersheba,  Armageddon: Two Men on an Anzac Trail, Collingwood: A Love Story, Canberra) 6.00 pm, Thursday, 7 November 2013…

ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2013 Website launch The new Honest History website (www.honesthistory.net.au) will be launched by Paul Daley, journalist and author (Beersheba, Armageddon: Two Men on an Anzac Trail, Collingwood: A Love Story,Canberra) 6.00 pm, Thursday, 7 November 2013 Manning…

H O N E S T    H I S T O R Y E-newsletter No. 4, August 2013 ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2013 Gallipoli – 98 years on: Professor Peter Stanley’s speech to Gallipoli Memorial Club symposium, 7 August 2013…

H O N E S T    H I S T O R Y E-newsletter No. 3, August 2013 ISSN:2202-5561 © Honest History Inc. 2013 Neither rosy glow nor black armband – just honest Honest History: what’s it all about? ‘There is…

H O N E S T   H I S T O R Y Newsletter No. 2, 21 June 2013 ISSN: 2202-5561  © Honest History Inc. 2013 We hadn’t planned another newsletter until late July but this deserves a special…

The original PDF version may be downloaded here H O N E S T   H I S T O R Y E-newsletter No. 1, May 2013 ISSN: 2202-5561  © Honest History Inc. 2013 Contents An e-newsletter introducing a website…