How war came home
Reflections on the digitisation of Australia’s repatriation files
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12650360 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Scates (0000-0002-4411-542X, University Colleges Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 190-209 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Australia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1449-0854 • E-ISSN: 1833-4881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14490854.2018.1558077 |
| OpenAlex | W2933262214 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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 the moral choices faced by archivists and historians. It concludes that the dissemination of these records is a necessary historical corrective, subverting simplistic and romanticised Anzac narratives
Art · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Repatriation · Sociology · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · History · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |