"A lasting gift to his descendants” : family memory and the great war in Australia
Ziino, Bart 2010, "A lasting gift to his descendants” : family memory and the great war in Australia, History and memory, vol. 22, no. 2, Fall / Winter, pp. 125-146.
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"A lasting gift to his descendants” : family memory and the great war in Australia
This article examines the processes of remembering and transmitting experiences of the Great War within families of Australian veterans now passed on. It focuses on a recent boom in private publishing of ancestors’ personal letters and diaries and argues that these practices continue to reimagine and reshape family memories of the war. In so doing it exposes the range of family members implicated in family remembrance then and now, and so complicates any process by which a war almost beyond living memory is to become entirely understood by its public myths and representations.
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210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
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