Conscription 1916-17: the votes that split the nat …
Rally! Rally! Rally! A Mosman Library Doing Our Bit event In 1916 Prime Minister Billy Hughes…
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In memory of Ken Donnellan
Recently a former and long-standing colleague, Ken Donnellan, passed away. Ken, who grew up in Neutral…
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The Blood Vote: Mosman votes YES, others NO.
Billy Hughes assumed the majority of Australians would support him. Those remaining, he thought, could be…
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The Blood Vote: NO to Conscription, by a nose.
On the 28th of October, 1916, Australians were asked to vote YES or NO. In favour…
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The Blood Vote: Divisions at the Front, and at Hom …
A life-and-death question Prime Minister ‘Billy’ Hughes liked to be known as The little Digger. Hughes…
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Cobbers remembered: A reading review
Official History Informal portrait of C E W Bean working on official files in his Victoria…
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Tagging our bit
When it comes to tagging Mosman service men and women in Trove’s historical newspaper database, John…
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W.J.A. “Allan” Allsop
Despatch rider W.J.A. Allsop. This photo is in the possession of his son John and was…
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Allsop war diaries, 1915-1917 at Mitchell Library …
Allsop war diaries, 1915-1917 / Wilfred Joseph Allan Allsop Source: Mitchell Library, State Library of New…