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Title: | The Great War in 'The Armidale Express' | Contributor(s): | Thorn, Benjamin (author) | Publication Date: | 2017 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21457 | Abstract: | When we think about the First World War it is done very much with the benefit of hindsight. The war and Australia's part in it has become an iconic part of our history, hallowed by a century of myth-making. We know what we think about about the war now. We even know how attitudes to the war and its commemoration have changed over the years. In the 1960s it almost seemed as if the Anzac legend might begin to fade away through attitudes exemplified in Alan Seymour's 1958 play 'One Day in the Year'. Incidentally, Seymour ironically died earlier this year just before the Gallipoli Centenary celebrations. This article is not so much about what happened during the Great War, or even how those events have been reinterpreted. Rather, how they were perceived at the time, and how different parts of Australia received quite different versions of what was happening.How did Australians get information about the war? The main source of information was the local newspapers. This of course could be supplemented to some degree with access to newspapers from other centres, including overseas, in both cases with some considerable delay, letters from Europe from servicemen or women or relatives, and a small number of returned servicemen. All these sources would also often find there way into the local press. It is not unusual to find quotations from Canadian or British newspapers, or from personal letters, or articles by returned servicemen in the newspaper. But when we think about newspapers we must recognise that there was a world of difference between what appeared in metropolitan daily newspapers and what appeared in the country press. And it is this difference that I want to focus on. I will take as a case study a comparison of the war coverage of the 'Sydney Morning Herald' and 'The Armidale Express'. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Armidale and the Great War, p. 297-313 | Publisher: | Ian M Johnstone | Place of Publication: | Armidale, Australia | ISBN: | 9781684186211 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 190301 Journalism Studies 210303 Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470105 Journalism studies 430302 Australian history |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950307 Conserving the Historic Environment 950503 Understanding Australia's Past |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130405 Conserving the historic environment 130703 Understanding Australia’s past |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/245106425 | Editor: | Editor(s): Ian M Johnstone |
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