Anzac Day at home and abroad: Towards a history of Australia's national day
- Authors: Scates, Bruce , Frances, Rae , Reeves, Keir , Bongiorno, Frank , Crotty, Martin , Knapman, Gareth , Seal, Graham , Becker, Annette , Reeves, Andrew , Soutphommasane, Thinethavone , Blackburn, Kevin , Clarke, Stephen , Stanley, Peter , Hoskins, Andrew , Winter, Jay , Bridge, Carl , James, Laura , Wheatley, Rebecca , Riches, Leah , McCosker, Alexandra , Sleight, Simon
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: History Compass Vol. 10, no. 7 (2012), p. 523-536
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- Description: Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development and contested meanings. It is both an historical study, tracing changes in commemoration and remembrance over time, and an investigation of the ways in which Australians and New Zealanders mark Anzac Day in the present day. It will interrogate the shaping of historical sensibility by exploring the complex connections between personal and collective remembrance. One of the challenges to understanding Anzac Day is dealing with the multiplicity of meanings of such a large-scale, diverse and now venerable (in modern Australian terms) observation. It will also examine the neglected subject of Anzac Day’s observance outside the Australia and New Zealand – in Europe, Asia, North Africa and the Pacific – where it has long played a role in expressing the identities of Antipodean expatriate communities.
Battlefield events : Landscape, commemoration and heritage
- Authors: Reeves, Keir , Bird, Geoffrey , James, Laura , Stichelbaut, Birger , Bourgeois, Jean
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Routledge advances in event research series.
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- Description: Battlefield Events: Landscape, Commemoration and Heritage is an investigative and analytical study into the way in which significant landscapes of war have been constructed and imagined through events over time to articulate specific narratives and denote consequence and identity. The book charts the ways in which a number of landscapes of war have been created and managed from an events perspective, and how the processes of remembering (along with silencing and forgetting) at these places has influenced the management of these warscapes in the present day. With chapters from authors based in seven different countries on three continents and comparative case studies, this book has a truly international perspective. This timely longitudinal analysis of war commemoration events, the associated landscapes, travel to these destinations and management strategies will be valuable reading for all those interested in war landscapes and events. © 2016 Keir Reeves, Geoffrey R. Bird, Laura James, Birger Stichelbaut and Jean Bourgeois.