Project Details
Project Description
Vast tracts of NSW were settled by returned soldiers in the aftermath of the Great War. This study will assess the successes and failures of NSW s soldier settlement scheme, linking it to the long quest to raise an industrious yeomanry on Australian soil. It will address emerging themes in transnational and environmental history, enrich regional/community histories and recover the largely forgotten experience of soldier settlers and their families as they battled with the land. A timely study based on recently opened archives, it will reach out to a wide and diverse audience. Outcomes will include a monograph, a PhD thesis, library guides, public lectures, an exhibition and a website profiling all the state s 9000 soldier settlers.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 1/07/08 → 31/12/12 |
Funding
- Australian Research Council (ARC): AUD25,060.00
- Australian Research Council (ARC): AUD44,558.00
- Australian Research Council (ARC): AUD28,321.00
- Australian Research Council (ARC): AUD44,508.00
- Australian Research Council (ARC)
- Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australia): AUD20,000.00
- Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australia): AUD40,000.00
- State Records Authority of New South Wales