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Celebrating 35 Years of Preserving Polish Heritage in Australia
Polish Club 19 Carrington Drive, Albion, Victoria, AustraliaCelebrating 35 years of recording Polish Culture and Achievements for future generations, through documents, photographs, artifacts and multimedia. In conjunction with the Polish Community Council of Australia, the President and […]
AWM Author talk: Will Davies
The Australian War Memorial Fairbairn Avenue, Campbell, ACT, AustraliaJoin us for our author talks series in the AWM theatre, bringing together some of Australia’s leading voices to talk about their new books. When: Wednesday, 21 October Where: Theatre, […]
Holding the Line: Thermopylae, Brallos Pass, and the Making of Memory
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaIn April 1941, Australian and New Zealand troops fought a series of desperate delaying actions during the Allied withdrawal through Greece. At Thermopylae and nearby Brallos Pass, they defended ground […]
2026 Robert O’Neill War Studies Lecture: The Transformative War: Australia in the war of 1939–45
China in the World Lotus Theatre, Building 88, ANU 188 Fellows Lane, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaAustralia's WWII contribution is overshadowed by the Anzac legend, but wartime economic mobilisation transformed the nation. Joan Beaumont delivers the 2026 Robert O'Neill Lecture. AWM, Second World War, 1939-1945 The […]
Last Days – Taste of Combat – The evolution of military food
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaAs the saying goes, “An army marches on its stomach.” Yet the essential contributions of those who cook, research, and serve food to hundreds of hungry troops often go unrecognised. […]
Book Launch – Sydney – The Digger’s Diary A soldier’s diary. A decades-long search. A life brought back from history. By Colin Reid
ANZAC Memorial - Hyde Park 126 Elizabeth St, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaWhen museum curator Colin Reid is handed a bullet-pierced diary for a Great War exhibition, it sets him on a decades-long quest to discover the fate of its owner, Corporal […]
Book Launch – Melbourne – The Digger’s Diary A soldier’s diary. A decades-long search. A life brought back from history. By Colin Reid
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaWhen museum curator Colin Reid is handed a bullet-pierced diary for a Great War exhibition, it sets him on a decades-long quest to discover the fate of its owner, Corporal […]
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85 Years On – Remembering the Siege of Tobruk – One Day Conference
Tobruk House 44 Victoria Ave, Albert Park, VIC, Australia‘The troops at Tobruk are caught like rats in a trap, would live like rats and die like rats.’ (Nazi propagandist Lord Haw Haw 1941) To the thousands of Allied […]
Chief of Navy’s History Conference
The Theatre, Australian National Maritime Museum 2 Murray Street, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaTo Fight and Win at Sea:125 Years of Australian Naval History In 1901, the Commonwealth Naval Force was formed, bringing together the separate colonial navies of Australia under one Commonwealth […]
AWM Author talk: Katrina Kittel
The Australian War Memorial Fairbairn Avenue, Campbell, ACT, AustraliaJoin us for our author talks series in the AWM theatre, bringing together some of Australia’s leading voices to talk about their new books. When: Wednesday, 25 November Where: Theatre, Australian War […]
The tanks have done marvels: The 110th anniversary seminar
The Tank Museum Bovington, Dorset, United KingdomJoin us for a special academic seminar marking 110 years since the first use of the tank in warfare. This day long event will bring together historians, researchers, and military […]
Spartans & ANZACs – 480 BC · 1941 – Exhibition
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaAustralia had its own Thermopylae. We’ve just forgotten it. 15 April 2026 - April 2027 In 480 BC, one of history’s most famous battles was fought in central Greece at […]
