“Tasman world’: investigating the gold rush era linkages and subsequent regional development between Otago and Victoria”
- Authors: McConville, Chris , Reeves, Keir , Reeves, Andrew
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Rushing for Gold: Life and commerce on the Goldfields of New Zealand and Australia Chapter 2 p. 23-40
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- Description: Assertions about common characteristics across the Tasman Sea, together with hints at subtle differences, have coloured accounts of Australia and New Zealand through to the twenty-first century. In some more recent descriptive accounts, however, the difference have lost their subtlety and come to count for more than commonality, to the chagrin of at least one historian James Belich. " From Chapter"
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.
Broken Hill: rethinking the significance of the material culture and intangible heritage of the Australian labour movement
- Authors: Reeves, Keir , Eklund, Erik , Reeves, Andrew , Scates, Bruce , Peel, Victoria
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Heritage Studies Vol. 17, no. 4 (2011), p. 301-317
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- Description: Taking Broken Hill as an exemplar of Australian, indeed global, labour heritage, this article, analyses the survival of labour heritage and union practices in the town that continues to the present. It examines the interpretation of successive layers of industrial and labour history as a means of revealing a culturally dynamic and enduring community with close connections to its built heritage. The authors challenge the application of two-dimensional and static models of heritage interpretations too often applied to contested heritage sites. The authors argue that Broken Hill is a community whose determined social and industrial character and distinct built environment has transcended changing patterns of investment and economic decline.