B Scates
Biographic Data
| ID | 57939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Scates |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Scates |
| SIGNATURE | SCATES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4411-542X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Finding Gallipoli: Battlefield Remembrance and the Movement of Australian and Turkish History
In a recent historiographical survey, Peter Stanley styled pilgrimage studies as a vibrant subset of First World War scholarship. The field–especially in Australia– is both well established and div
Making the Memory Book: War-Time Loss and Memorialization through Ephemera
This article explores the way a family fashioned a memorial to a son ‘taken by the war’. It focuses on the Robert’s collection in Melbourne, Australia’s largest bound collection of war time ephemera, and the making of what was called ‘Frank’s Memory Book’. It argues that families asserted ownership over their dead, crafting different modes of memorialization to authorized modes of remembrance, considers the way communities of mourners were brough…
Return to Vietnam: An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys
Return to Vietnam: An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys." Australian Historical Studies, 54(2), pp. 376–377
De-Colonizing Australia’s Commemorative Landscape: Truth-Telling,” Contestation and the Dialogical Turn
This article will explore the origins and afterlife of the Explorers’ Memorial in Fremantle, Western Australia. Raised to commemorate the “murder” of white pioneers in the 1860s, the monument issued an explicit denial of Indigenous sovereignty and exonerated white violence on the frontier. In an instance of dialogical memorialization, an additional plaque was placed on the monument. It outlines the history of provocation that led to the explorers…
Set in Stone
Memorials to white explorers and pioneers long stood (virtually) unchallenged in the heart of Australia's towns and cities. By occupying civic space, they served to legitimise narratives of conquest and dispossession, colonising minds in the same ways 'settlers' seized vast tracts of territory. The focus of this article is a memorial raised to the memory of three white explorers, 'murdered' (it was claimed) by 'treacherous natives' on the north w…
How war came home: Reflections on the digitisation of Australia’s repatriation files
This article explores the digitisation of repatriation files, Australia’s largest single World War I archive. It charts this collection’s difficult transition from virtual obscurity to acclaim, considers the way these files extend understandings of war, and places this process within the shifting politics of the Anzac Centenary. The public disclosure of such intimate and sensitive material raised serious ethical questions, and this article scopes…
Ardent for Some Desperate Glory’: Quick March! The Children of World War One , State Library of New South Wales, 16 March–13 October 2019
Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums, and Memory in Britain, Canada and Australia
Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums, and Memory in Britain, Canada and Australia." Australian Historical Studies, 50(1), pp. 140–141
Kenneth Stanley Inglis AO (1929–2017)
Kenneth Stanley Inglis died of pancreatic cancer on 1 December 2017. He continued to write until a few days before his death, imparting careful instructions to Jay Winter and Seamus Spark, on their
Letters from a pilgrimage’: Reflection on the 1965 return to Gallipoli
This article examines Ken Inglis’s journey to Gallipoli in 1965, marking the 50th anniversary of the Landing. It involves a detailed consideration of his earliest writings on this subject, drawing on unpublished manuscripts held by the National Library. The article uses this study as an opportunity to examine the character and method of Inglis’s historical writing and situate this early work within the corpus of a larger body of scholarship. It c…
The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia 1916–1939
When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and contented families, appealing to returned servicepeople and their families hoping for a fresh start. Yet just 20 years after the inception of these soldier settlement schemes, fewer than half of the settlers remained on their properties. In this timely book, base…
The Railway Men: Prisoner Journeys through the Traumascapes of World War II
Over 15,000 Australians were taken prisoner by the Japanese duringWorldWar II and around one-third of those men and women died in captivity. The forced labour and incarceration of prisoner of war is considered by many as one of Australia's greatest tragedies of World War II. This article argues that the story of incarceration did not end with those who actually experienced it. These wounding memories were passed down through families and communit…
Such a Great Space of Water between Us’: Anzac Day in Britain, 1916–39
The historiography of early Anzac Day in Britain has focused on the spectacular marches of troops through London streets while neglecting the more personal forms of Anzac observance. This article explores the early history of Anzac Day graveside pilgrimage in Britain as an example of how the Empire's bereaved sought to cope with their grief in the immediate postwar years. The later decline of the pilgrimage movement was the result of the growing …
Labour and Anzac: An Introduction
For the Adelaide Advertiser, the workers had solved the problem of how to reconcile “the holiday spirit” with “dire national stress ... by eliminating from their demonstration any element of self.”3 The anti-labour Register, unable even on such a grand occasion to refrain from a series of cheap shots, backhandedly praised labour’s “splendid sacrifice” when it had forgotten “all about itself, all about its politics, and its industrialism, all abou…
I Intend to Get Justice: The Moral Economy of Soldier Settlement
Soldier settlement was a key scheme in a suite of repatriation policies enacted in the aftermath of World War I. Across Australia thousands of returned men, including over 9,000 in New South Wales, took up the challenge and tried their luck on the land. Thousands failed. Through the voices of individual soldier settlers and using extensive and only recently released Department of Lands loan files, this article focuses on one aspect of the soldier…
Anzac Journeys: Returning to the Battlefields of World War Two
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: Towards a History of Australia’s National Day
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. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Broken Hill: Rethinking the significance of the material culture and intangible heritage of the Australian labour movement
Taking Broken Hill as an exemplar of Australian, indeed global, labour heritage, this article, analyses the survival of labour heritage and union practices in the town that continues to the present. It examines the interpretation of successive layers of industrial and labour history as a means of revealing a culturally dynamic and enduring community with close connections to its built heritage. The authors challenge the application of two-dimensi…
Memorialising Gallipoli: Manufacturing Memory at Anzac
The memorials of Gallipoli have not lost their power to move, confront and often even inspire their visitors. Their meanings are re-visited, even re-invented by each successive generation of Anzac pilgrim and, contrary to the simplistic mono-dimensional readings of some historians, the Peninsula's commemorative landscape remains a site of fierce contestation. Pacifist and patriot, back packer and bereaved all interpret it differently. Moreover, t…
Class Formation and Political Change: A Trans-Tasman Dialogue
The retreat from aggregate representations of class has opened the way for a reassessment of its role in both Australia and New Zealand's history. This article focuses on two recent New Zealand research projects to review our traditional interpretations of class-based coalitions, interpretations that have often been deeply shaped by the Australian and British scholarship.1 The first and oldest of these projects has related political change nation…
The first casualty of war: A reply to McKenna's and Ward's ‘Gallipoli pilgrimage and sentimental nationalism’
The publication of ‘Return to Gallipoli’ has ‘opened up a new front in the historiography of the Anzac myth ‘. But unlike the simple oppositional paradigms of the History Wars, the sides in this particular dispute are fluid and problematic. This reply to McKenna's and Ward's critique offers new insights into the relationship between feeling, memory and historical understanding as it explores the creative archaeology of ‘Return to Gallipoli’. It c…
Oceans of Love: Narrelle, an Australian Nurse in World War I
Review(s) of: Oceans of Love: Narrelle, an Australian Nurse in World War I by Melanie Oppenheimer, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006. pp. 272. $29.95 paper. Review(s) of: Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefi elds of the Great War by Bruce Scates, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2006. pp. xxiv + 273. $39.95 paper
The Historian's Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History
Eminent contributors include Alan Atkinson, Graeme Davison, Greg Dening, John Hirst, Beverley Kingston, Marilyn Lake, and Iain McCalman. They not only ask but answer the hard questions about writing and researching history. How do historians choose their histories? What sort of emotional investment do they make in their subjects, and how do they control their sympathies? How do they deal with unpalatable discoveries? To whom are historians respon…
A Forum Discussion of Keith Windschuttle's Recent Work
The Price of War: Labour Historians Confront Military History
industry, older university presses appear to be retreating from publishing Australian history altogether. The demise of Cambridge's Studies in Australian History Series is a case in point. Today, PhD theses (however topical or brilliant) seldom make that difficult transition to a monograph and even well established authors (what the industry calls the 'big names' of the profession) are invited to return their manuscript with a hefty publication s…
With the White People: The Crucial Role of Aborigines in the Exploration and Development of Australia
In Gallipoli's Shadow: Pilgrimage, memory, mourning and the great war
At a time when many forecast the demise of History, pilgrimages to the cemeteries of the Great War continue to grow in size and number. This paper asks who undertakes such journeys, why they go and how they respond to these 'sacred' and historic places. Through interviews and surveys it reconstructs the emotional world of these travellers, examining the varied responses of young and old and exploring the complex intersection between personal and …
The first casualty of war: A reply to McKenna's and Ward's ‘Gallipoli pilgrimage and sentimental nationalism’
The publication of ‘Return to Gallipoli’ has ‘opened up a new front in the historiography of the Anzac myth ‘. But unlike the simple oppositional paradigms of the History Wars, the sides in this particular dispute are fluid and problematic. This reply to McKenna's and Ward's critique offers new insights into the relationship between feeling, memory and historical understanding as it explores the creative archaeology of ‘Return to Gallipoli’. It c…
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: Towards a History of Australia’s National Day
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. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Sex Workers or Citizens? Prostitution and the Shaping of “Settler” Society in Australia
The history of prostitution, defined as the commercial exchange of sexual services, provides a fertile ground for the study of the intersections between gender, race and class. Obviously, the sale of sexual labour has implications for constructions of gender, although the specific implications may change with time. Commercial sex offers particularly sharp insights into the ways in which gender considerations intersect with class and race because …
Mobilizing Manhood: Gender and the Great Strike in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand
The Great Strike of 1890 in Australia and New Zealand symbolized the rise of class, influenced nationalist discourse, and shaped labour politics. It also signified a crisis in gender relations. Conservatives and unionists openly contested the meaning of masculinity, mobilizing concepts of manhood in ways specific to class, community, ethnicity and age. Both groups were alarmed by the role women played in the dispute; attacks on scabs and special …
Socialism, Feminism and the Case of William Lane: A Reply to Marilyn Lake
Lane's solution ?socialism?was very much a man's choice, inspired out of an 'anxiety about gender' as much as a consciousness of class. It would not only guarantee workers 'the full product of their labour', it would also 'retrieve their status as men'. Masculinity, she concluded, was not just a preoccupation of Lane's, but also of a male dominated labour movement.2 Lake's early argument was grounded in a detailed analysis of Lane's only novel, T…
Set in Stone
Memorials to white explorers and pioneers long stood (virtually) unchallenged in the heart of Australia's towns and cities. By occupying civic space, they served to legitimise narratives of conquest and dispossession, colonising minds in the same ways 'settlers' seized vast tracts of territory. The focus of this article is a memorial raised to the memory of three white explorers, 'murdered' (it was claimed) by 'treacherous natives' on the north w…
How war came home: Reflections on the digitisation of Australia’s repatriation files
This article explores the digitisation of repatriation files, Australia’s largest single World War I archive. It charts this collection’s difficult transition from virtual obscurity to acclaim, considers the way these files extend understandings of war, and places this process within the shifting politics of the Anzac Centenary. The public disclosure of such intimate and sensitive material raised serious ethical questions, and this article scopes…
Broken Hill: Rethinking the significance of the material culture and intangible heritage of the Australian labour movement
Taking Broken Hill as an exemplar of Australian, indeed global, labour heritage, this article, analyses the survival of labour heritage and union practices in the town that continues to the present. It examines the interpretation of successive layers of industrial and labour history as a means of revealing a culturally dynamic and enduring community with close connections to its built heritage. The authors challenge the application of two-dimensi…
My Brilliant Career and Radicalism
Peer-reviewed
The Unknown Sock Knitter: Voluntary Work, Emotional Labour, Bereavement and the Great War
This paper explores the nature and extent of Australian women's unpaid work during the Great War. It examines the class basis of war work and considers the patriotic and philanthropic motivations behind it. Many accounts have dismissed war work with an empty tally of knitting and sewing. This paper considers the emotional labour invested in unpaid labour and recovers women's crucial role as the mediators of loss and bereavement. It identifies the…
Is labour history dead?∗
Cause for Power: The Official History of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party. By Graham Freudenberg. Pluto Press in association with the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party, Sydney 1991. Pp. 297. $39 5 doth, $19 5 paper. A History of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales 1891–1991. By Jim Hagan and Ken Turner. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne 1991. Pp. xiii + 301. $24 9 paper. Bede Nairn and Labor History.…
Gender, Household and Community Politics: The 1890 Maritime Strike in Australia and New Zealand
Introduction We know a great deal about the Maritime Strike of 1890. For fifty years it has stood at the centre of labour historiography, debated and celebrated on both sides of the Tasman. Nor is that surprising. The strike was phenomenally large by nineteenth century standards; 50,000 Australian workers were involved and perhaps as many as 10,000 New Zealanders. Its title suggests a misnomer. Though the strike began with the Maritime unions it …
Millenium or Pandemonium: Radicalism in the Labour Movement, Sydney, 1889-1899
Barbara Taylor's observations on the British radical tradition are equally relevant to our own. Here too ideals that have captured the imagination of one generation have been lost by the next, their advocates dismissed as cranks and faddists. The Single Tax movement which flourished briefly in late nineteenth century New South Wales is a powerful illustration of the fragility of political vision. Despite their success in popularising the cause of…
What rough beast?’
Millenium or Pandemonium: Radicalism in the Labour Movement, Sydney, 1889-1899
Barbara Taylor's observations on the British radical tradition are equally relevant to our own. Here too ideals that have captured the imagination of one generation have been lost by the next, their advocates dismissed as cranks and faddists. The Single Tax movement which flourished briefly in late nineteenth century New South Wales is a powerful illustration of the fragility of political vision. Despite their success in popularising the cause of…
Anarchism and State Violence in Sydney and Melbourne, 1886-1896: An Argument about Australian Labour History
A struggle for survival: Unemployment and the unemployed agitation in late nineteenth‐century Melbourne∗
The struggles of the 1890s have been told and retold in the pages of Australian historiography. The defeat of the great strikes, the emergence of the Labor Party and the disappointment of political radicalism have preoccupied successive generations of scholars and activists. Indeed some have shaped the 'legend of the '90s' into a national mystique; a cause for celebration or regret.1 For all the debate which surrounds this formative period of Aus…
Socialism, Feminism and the Case of William Lane: A Reply to Marilyn Lake
Lane's solution ?socialism?was very much a man's choice, inspired out of an 'anxiety about gender' as much as a consciousness of class. It would not only guarantee workers 'the full product of their labour', it would also 'retrieve their status as men'. Masculinity, she concluded, was not just a preoccupation of Lane's, but also of a male dominated labour movement.2 Lake's early argument was grounded in a detailed analysis of Lane's only novel, T…
Gender, Household and Community Politics: The 1890 Maritime Strike in Australia and New Zealand
Introduction We know a great deal about the Maritime Strike of 1890. For fifty years it has stood at the centre of labour historiography, debated and celebrated on both sides of the Tasman. Nor is that surprising. The strike was phenomenally large by nineteenth century standards; 50,000 Australian workers were involved and perhaps as many as 10,000 New Zealanders. Its title suggests a misnomer. Though the strike began with the Maritime unions it …
Socialism and Manhood: A Rejoinder
Marilyn Lake believes that my reply to her work on William Lane is an attempt to 'discredit' recent feminist inquiry into masculinity and the labour movement! Nothing could be further from the truth. Several times in my reply I referred to the importance of the debate that she opened up and to the 'great contribution' she has made. I entirely endorse the project to unravel the gendered dimensions of political discourse, and the attempts to unders…
Is labour history dead?∗
Cause for Power: The Official History of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party. By Graham Freudenberg. Pluto Press in association with the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party, Sydney 1991. Pp. 297. $39 5 doth, $19 5 paper. A History of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales 1891–1991. By Jim Hagan and Ken Turner. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne 1991. Pp. xiii + 301. $24 9 paper. Bede Nairn and Labor History.…
Sharing the Country: The Case for an Agreement between Black and White Australians
With the White People: The Crucial Role of Aborigines in the Exploration and Development of Australia
Labour History: "A Journal of Labour and Social History, numero special, "Women, Work and the Labour Movement in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand
Remaking our History
That Dangerous and Persuasive Women: Vida Goldstein
'We Are Not… [A]boriginal… We Are Australian': William Lane, Racism and the Construction of Aboriginality
Mobilizing Manhood: Gender and the Great Strike in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand
The Great Strike of 1890 in Australia and New Zealand symbolized the rise of class, influenced nationalist discourse, and shaped labour politics. It also signified a crisis in gender relations. Conservatives and unionists openly contested the meaning of masculinity, mobilizing concepts of manhood in ways specific to class, community, ethnicity and age. Both groups were alarmed by the role women played in the dispute; attacks on scabs and special …
Australia's First Fabians: Middle-class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement
Books
Creating Australia: Changing Australian History. Edited by Wayne Hudson and Geoffrey Bolton. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997. Pp. xiii + 187. $24.95 paper. The Europeans in Australia: A History, volume 1, The Beginning. By Alan Atkinson. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997. Pp. xviii + 429. $49.95 cloth. Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship. By John Chesterman and Brian Galligan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1…
British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century
A New Australia: Citizenship, Radicalism and the First Republic
Sex Workers or Citizens? Prostitution and the Shaping of “Settler” Society in Australia
The history of prostitution, defined as the commercial exchange of sexual services, provides a fertile ground for the study of the intersections between gender, race and class. Obviously, the sale of sexual labour has implications for constructions of gender, although the specific implications may change with time. Commercial sex offers particularly sharp insights into the ways in which gender considerations intersect with class and race because …
Unfinished Business: Reconciliation, the Republic and the Constitution
The Unknown Sock Knitter: Voluntary Work, Emotional Labour, Bereavement and the Great War
This paper explores the nature and extent of Australian women's unpaid work during the Great War. It examines the class basis of war work and considers the patriotic and philanthropic motivations behind it. Many accounts have dismissed war work with an empty tally of knitting and sewing. This paper considers the emotional labour invested in unpaid labour and recovers women's crucial role as the mediators of loss and bereavement. It identifies the…
Books
Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia. Edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 344. $49.95 cloth. Colonial Consorts: The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839–1900. By Marguerite Hancock. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii + 324. $59.95 cloth. Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist. By Patricia Clar…
In Gallipoli's Shadow: Pilgrimage, memory, mourning and the great war
At a time when many forecast the demise of History, pilgrimages to the cemeteries of the Great War continue to grow in size and number. This paper asks who undertakes such journeys, why they go and how they respond to these 'sacred' and historic places. Through interviews and surveys it reconstructs the emotional world of these travellers, examining the varied responses of young and old and exploring the complex intersection between personal and …
My Brilliant Career and Radicalism
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