Peter Stanley

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Lynda Payne, The Best Surgeon in England: Percivall Pott, 1713–88 (New York, etc.: Peter Lang, 2017), pp. 236, SFr.103/€94.95/£64/$US94.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4331-2319-1. - Volume 61 Issue 4 - Peter Stanley

Understanding the significance the battle of El Alamein holds for Australians involves placing the 9th Australian Division's part in the battle in a broader context, one that will probably be unfamiliar to non-Australian readers. This discussion of Alamein's importance for Australia therefore necessarily begins a long way from the desert of Egypt....

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. T...

For over ninety years, Australia has been interpreted, defined, celebrated and criticised through the idea of ‘Anzac’. The word – and particularly its many meanings that have changed over time – can mystify. Dale Blair, an astringent critic of the simple-minded acceptance of Anzac and the author of a frank analysis of its expression through one bat...

Between 1831 and 1900, about 750,000 free immigrants reached the Australian colonies from Britain under various colonial emigration schemes. They endured long voyages, passing from the temperate north through the tropics, often sailing across the cold Southern Ocean. Seeking a new chance in life, they risked a relatively small chance of death en ro...

Australian, New Zealand and Indian historians writing about war in the past century have made a crucial nexus between imperial relations and national consciousness. Constitutionally, their history has been literally post-colonial: since 1901 in the case of Australia, 1910 for New Zealand and 1947 for India. Their awareness as nations in historical...

Mary Besemeres, Translating One's Self, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2002, pp 295, pb, ISBN 3906766985.Richard Freadman, Shadow of Doubt: My Father and Myself, Bystander Press, Northcote, 2004, pp 288, pb $24.95, ISBN 0957797834.Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, Melbourne, Text, 2004, pp 342, hb $45.00, ISBN 1877008958.Philip Ayres, Mawson: A Li...