The fascinating story of how the war came to Avondale and inspired alumnus Dr Donald Wilson and his family to fly.
New role for Anzac expert
Friday, September 15, 2023An Avondale academic is the inaugural Visiting Historian at the Anzac Memorial in Sydney’s Hyde Park.
A different path
Friday, April 14, 2023A Seventh-day Adventist response to World War I that differed from most churches in Australia preserved church and state loyalty, research by an Avondale professor shows.
Bully beef and biscuits
Wednesday, November 10, 2021We remember their fighting reputation but Anzacs earned it despite a diet bereft of physiological and emotional nourishment, the first systematic study of Great War food provisions shows.
Bon appetite!
Wednesday, April 21, 2021The Anzacs quarantined their wartime exotic food experiences not as the new norm but as a novel other, research by one of our academics shows.
Soul fighters
Thursday, April 23, 2020Eliminating spirituality from the national conversation only cheapens the experience of Anzacs who wrestled with belief on the battleground, argues a Great War historian.