I'm a military historian who lives and writes in Sydney, Australia's oldest city. I've worked at the Australian War Memorial and held a fellowship at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies in London, and I'm an honorary associate of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia. I'm currently writing a short book for the National Library of Australia on a New South Wales cavalry squadron that trained at Aldershot before fighting in the Boer war.

News

  • My latest talk...

    20 April at 13:09 from atlas

    ...was at Gerard Henderson's Sydney Institute on 17 April. Listen to it on the Institute's website.

  • My latest pieces of writing...

    9 January at 10:28 from atlas

    ...include a chapter in the new book Anzac's Dirty Dozen, and a home front volume for a series of photographic histories of Australia in ...

  • Writing Richo

    12 September at 17:41 from atlas

    How do you squeeze Graham Richardson's political life into an entry for the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate? I tried to ...

  • Paul Brickhill's war of nerves

    25 July at 16:56 from atlas

    Did you know Paul Brickhill was Australian? Neither did I, until the Australian Dictionary of Biography asked me to write its entry on ...

 

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My Amazon page

The NSW Lancers in England and South Africa 1899

Red Coat Dreaming

Breaker Morant

Yes, we all have a past...

Australian National Defence League 1905-1938

Bungaree's red coat...a different interpretation

My home front volume in the Dept of Veterans' Affairs WWI series