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Following the Pompey Elliott session
War Time Letters
White Gloves Room, State Library of Queensland
Free
History/War Stories
311
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#About the event
Duration: 30 minutes
Meet the curators of the State Library of Queensland archives. See the original artifacts and have the chance to hear the stories of the men and women who wrote these letters all those years ago.
Robyn Hamilton is the Lead, Collection Building, Queensland Memory, and her team is responsible for growing and maintaining collections in the John Oxley Library and Australian Library of Art. She has spent the last four years as a content curator working on the Q ANZAC 100: Memories for a New Generation project, and has delighted in discovering and unlocking Queensland voices of the First World War, and building the collection to enable greater understanding of its impact on Queensland life.
#Artist
Ross McMullin
Ross McMullin is an award-winning biographer and historian. He has researched and written extensively about Australian history and politics, with World War I a particular interest. His biography Pompey Elliott won awards for literature and biography. Pompey Elliott was Australia’s most famous fighting general in World War I. Now, with the publication of Ross’s most recent book Pompey Elliott at War: In His Own Words, Pompey has also become the creator of the most riveting Australian personal narrative of that conflict.
Ross McMullin’s previous book Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History and the National Cultural Award. His books also include Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius, a biography of the remarkably talented and versatile artist–writer who was Australia’s first official war artist. Other books by Ross include the centenary ALP history The Light on the Hill, and another political history So Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and the World’s First National Labour Government.
He has contributed chapters to numerous multi-authored books and many articles to periodicals and newspapers.
http://www.rossmcmullin.com.au
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Ursula Cleary
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