Craig Wilcox is a historian who lives and writes in Sydney, Australia's oldest city. He's worked at the Australian War Memorial, has held a fellowship at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies in London, and is an honorary Associate of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia. His books include Australia's Boer War (2002), Red Coat Dreaming (2009) and Badge Boot Button (2017). His current project is a history of Australian maritime frontier conflict.
Experience
2012–2017
Contract author to, National Library of Australia
2011–2012
Contract author to, Department of Veterans' Affairs
2004–2005
Historian, Australian War Memorial
1993–1996
Historian, Australian War Memorial
Education
2003
Deakin , Graduate Certificate in museum studies
1994
Australian National University, PhD in Australian history
Publications
2017
Badge Boot Button: the story of Australian uniforms, National Library of Australia, Canberra
2014
A Kind of Victory: Charles Cox and his Australian cavalrymen, National Library of Australia, Canberra
2012
Home Front: Australians in World War I , Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra
2009
Red Coat Dreaming: how colonial Australia embraced the British army, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne
2002
Australia’s Boer War, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
1998
For Hearths and Homes: citizen soldiering in Australia 1854-1945, Allen & Unwin, Sydney
Grants and Contracts
1999
History of Australia's part in the South African War 1899-1902