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Articles on WWI
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Western society has become strangely unaware of the horrors of modern war, says an expert.
It’s undoubtedly exciting news, but polar exploration has a poor record when it comes to diversity and we need to rethink the values and attitudes that underpin our fascination.
The French-Senegalese author’s novel At Night All Blood is Black is a harrowing and politically profound story of a Senegalese soldier fighting for the French in the first World War.
Australia has sent help to its nearest neighbour to deal with its COVID crisis. But to really forge the next chapter in that relationship, we need to understand the history between the two countries.
In the 1980s, CSIRO and its university collaborators set into motion a chain of events that would lead to the production of relenza, the first drug to successfully treat the flu.
The second world war offers a possible blueprint for confronting the ventilator challenge.
When the 1918 influenza pandemic struck India, the death toll was highest among the poor.
Protected from development, natural landscapes worldwide are emerging from the violence of war.
For Australians serving overseas in WWI, Christmas was particularly difficult. Menus reveal how soldiers tried to maintain the traditions of home.
How books can help veterans overcome physical and mental trauma.
Over four years, this BBC Radio 4 drama chronicled the daily lives of ordinary people dealing with the hardships of World War I.
The British Mandate in Palestine had its origins in the end of World War I and lasted until 1948. What happened next has devastated the Middle East ever since.
From the Swiss border to the English channel, a scholar describes his pilgrimage of the Western Front as a tribute to fallen soldiers and to learn more about the devastating loss of life.
More than 16 million people lost their lives in world war one. Over a century later, we are still asking – for what?
A top class female footballer and tragic young soldier who was shot for ‘desertion’ despite fighting in some of WW1’s bloodiest battle fields are two hidden stories of The Great War.
The wildflowers that WWI soldiers encountered in Europe become symbols of remembrance and the fragility of life. The red poppy in particular is a powerful motif in Australian war art and photography.
Before World War I, petroleum had few practical uses, but it emerged from the war as a strategic global asset necessary for national stability and security.
Mental health trauma has always been a part of war. Treatments have come a long way over the last century, but we still don’t understand why the responses change for different people and times.
High school students in America learn two very different perspectives on World War I in their U.S. and world history classes. But which of these competing viewpoints should take center stage?
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Associate Professor of History, University of Sydney
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Professor, Department of Art History, University of Sydney
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Reader in International Journalism, City, University of London
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Research Associate, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
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Research Professor in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in English, The Open University
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Research Associate, Institute of Coding, Coventry University
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Lecturer in the Department of History, Durham University
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Professor of Innovation Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor in the Geographies of Heritage, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in German Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Penn State
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Associate professor, Stockholm University
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Associate Professor of Education, Michigan State University
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Professor of Film and Media Arts, Principal Lecturer in Film and Media Production, Sheffield Hallam University
