Over at
Signposts, Matthew Tonks writes about an international conference he attended in Wellington last weekend.
The Experience of a Lifetime: People, Personalities and Leaders in the First
World War was an excellent arena for learning about a variety of personal war stories: "Twenty four presenters regaled their audience with a range of experiences – from
European generals responding to unprecedented mechanical conflict, to Able
Seaman John Reardon, a New Zealander who died when the Royal Australian Navy’s
submarine disappeared off New Guinea in September 1914."
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Ref: 'The experience of a lifetime...' conference poster, 22-24 August 2014. |
Professor Sir Hew Strachan of Oxford University spoke at the conference and will be speaking at Auckland War Memorial Museum tonight, Friday 29 August, at 7.30pm. The tickets for Sir Hew's talk in the museum auditorium have sold out. However, there are
tickets now on sale for seating in the auditorium lobby.
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Ref: Auckland War Memorial Museum image, Sir Hew Strachan. |
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Ref: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. Battle. London: Elkin
Mathews, 1916. |
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Ref: Postcard. Unexplosed Turkish shell at Anzac
1915. Photo ref:
657-4. |
Author: Zoë Colling, Sir George Grey Special Collections.
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