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In recent years, the experience of Aboriginal soldiers in the First World War has been subsumed into the nationalist grand narrative of the Anzac legend. However, as Wesley Enoch’s theatre production Black Diggers has recently shown, Aboriginal military service in the First World War was a complex and multilayered historical experience that is intimately tied to histories of dispossession and the Aboriginal political struggle for change. This talk will explore how archival evidence of Aboriginal people’s war time experience raises new questions about the meaning of this military service for individuals, communities and the nation.
When: Thursday, 10 September 2015 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Where: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street , Sydney
Cost: Free.
Find out more on the History Council of NSW website here.
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