Dr Kirsty Harris

Honorary Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Politics & Society

Anzac Day not just for the boys

By the late 1920s, Anzac Day had become male-centric. But that wasn’t the case during WW1 and the immediate post-war years, when nurses played a central role in commemorations.

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