Category Archives: Social and Cultural History of War

June 26, 2012 · 7:01 am

Popcaanz Conference June 2012

I’ll be attending the 2012 annual POPCAANZ (Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand) conference over the next few days. I’ll be giving a paper on entertainers and soldier audiences during the First World War.

The Whizz-bangs were a popular British military concert party.

I’ll also be giving a paper at ‘Revealing the Reader’ History of Reading symposium organised by Monash University’s Centre for the Book on Australian soldiers’ reading in the First and Second World Wars.

I am looking forward to both.

Boredom is the Enemy

My new book is now available through Ashgate (hardcopy and e-book).

See http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409427322

New Publication

Finally my book on Australian soldiers’ experiences of education and entertainment is about to arrive!!

Boredom is the Enemy: the Intellectual and Imaginative Lives of Australian Soldiers in the Great War and Beyond

It is being published by Ashgate and will available as both an eBook and in hard copy from January.

Information about my book is available here. It is cheaper to purchase it directly from the publisher than elsewhere. SHARP members can also get a discount on all Ashgate titles.

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