Craig Wilcox is a historian who lives and writes in Sydney, Australia's oldest city. He's worked at the Australian War Memorial, has held a fellowship at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies in London, and is an honorary Associate of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia. His books include Australia's Boer War (2002), Red Coat Dreaming (2009) and Badge Boot Button (2017). His current project is a history of Australian maritime frontier conflict.
Experience
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2012–2017Contract author to, National Library of Australia
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2011–2012Contract author to, Department of Veterans' Affairs
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2004–2005Historian, Australian War Memorial
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1993–1996Historian, Australian War Memorial
Education
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2003Deakin , Graduate Certificate in museum studies
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1994Australian National University, PhD in Australian history
Publications
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2017Badge Boot Button: the story of Australian uniforms, National Library of Australia, Canberra
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2014A Kind of Victory: Charles Cox and his Australian cavalrymen, National Library of Australia, Canberra
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2012Home Front: Australians in World War I , Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra
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2009Red Coat Dreaming: how colonial Australia embraced the British army, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne
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2002Australia’s Boer War, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
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1998For Hearths and Homes: citizen soldiering in Australia 1854-1945, Allen & Unwin, Sydney
Grants and Contracts
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1999History of Australia's part in the South African War 1899-1902
- Role:
- Author
- Funding Source:
- Australian War Memorial
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1998Australian Bicentennial Fellow and Rydon Fellow
- Role:
- Researcher
- Funding Source:
- Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Contact Craig for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Sydney, Australia
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