Bill Gammage
| William Leonard Gammage | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1942 Orange, New South Wales |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouse | Jan |
William Leonard "Bill" Gammage AM (born 1942) is an Australian academic historian, Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of Australian National University. He was born in Orange, New South Wales, went to Wagga Wagga High School and then to the Australian National University.[1] He was on the faculty of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of Adelaide. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and deputy chair of the National Museum of Australia.
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[edit] History studies
[edit] The Great War
He is perhaps best known for his book The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War, which is based on his Ph.D. thesis, written at the Australian National University. It was first published in 1974, and re-printed in 1975, 1980, 1981 (the year in which Peter Weir's film, Gallipoli came out), 1985 and 1990. This study revives the tradition of C.E.W. Bean, Australia's official historian of the First World War, who focused his narrative on the men in the line, rather than the strategies of generals. Gammage corresponded with 272 Great War veterans, and consulted the personal records of another 728, mostly at the Australian War Memorial.
He has written several other books about the experiences of soldiers in the First World War. He co-edited the Australians 1938 volume of the Bicentennial History of Australia (1988), and three definitive books about Australian soldiers in World War One.
In 1998 Gammage joined the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU as an ARC Senior Research Fellow to work the history of Aboriginal land management. This work was cross-discipinary, working "across fields as disparate as history, anthropology and botany".[2]
[edit] Gallipoli
As an historical adviser, Gammage has worked on many documentaries and his writing is cited as an authoritative source on Australia's participation in World War One.[3] For the film Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir, Gammage was employed as the military advisor [4] and he worked on the text that David Williamson turned into the screen play of the film.
[edit] Local history of Narrandera
Gammage produced an historic study of the Shire of Narrandera. A copy of this history can be purchased from the Narrandera Tourist Information Centre.[5] Gammage was made a freeman of Narrandera Shire Council in 1987.[1]
[edit] Awards and nominations
- 1988 - "Narrandera Shire" (1986) which won the ABC/ABA Manning Clark Bicentennial History Award in 1988
- 1999 - Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, History Book Award for The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-39[6]
- 1999 - shortlisted in the New South Wales Premier's History Awards for The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-39
- 2005 - Member of the Order of Australia (AM)[7]
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Books
- Gammage, Bill (1974). The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War. Australia: Penguin. ISBN 0-85179-699-0.
- Gammage, Bill; David Harris; Michael Cole; Reg Piggott (1976). An Australian in the First World War. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521210186.
- Gammage, Bill; David Williamson (1981). The Story of Gallipoli. Ringwood, Vic: Penguin Books. ISBN 0140061053.
- Gammage, Bill; Andrew Markus (1982). All that dirt : aborigines 1938. Canberra: History Project, Inc., Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 0949776084.
- Gammage, Bill (1986). Narrandera Shire. Narrandera: Bill Gammage for the Narrandera Shire Council. OCLC: 63179965.
- Gammage, Bill; Peter Spearritt (1987). Australians, 1938. New York: Broadway; Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates. ISBN 0949288217.
- Headon, David John; James Warden; Bill Gammage (1994). Crown or country : the traditions of Australian republicanism. St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1863735992.
- Gammage, Bill (1998). The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939. Melbourne: Melbourne University. ISBN 0522848273.
- Gammage, Bill (Oct 2011). The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin (online page). ISBN 9781742377483. http://books.google.com/books?id=aUddY9fGkNMC. Retrieved 12 Oct 2011. Interview about the book, 11 Oct 2011.
[edit] Journal articles
- ANZAC's influence on Turkey and Australia. Journal of the Australian War Memorial.: 1991,18; Presented as a keynote address at the 1990 Australian War Memorial history conference
- "My Gun, My Brother. the World of the Papua New Guinea Colonial Police 1920-1960" Oceania, Vol. 70, 1999.
- Gammage, Bill (2005). "'...far more happier than we Europeans': Aborigines and farmers" (PDF). London Papers in Australian Studies (formerly Working Papers in Australian Studies) (London: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies. King's College. Each year the Centre publishes London Papers in Australian Studies . These are representative of some of the most recent and exciting intellectual work in Australian Studies.) (12): 1–27. ISSN 1746-1774. OCLC: 137333394. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/01/27/52/LPAS12BillGammage1.pdf. Retrieved 21 Dec 2010
[edit] Book chapters
- "Oral and Written Sources." In Oral Tradition in Melanesia. Ed. by Donald Denoon. Port Moresby, New Guinea: University of Papua, New Guinea and Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. pp. 115-24.
[edit] Other work
- "Sir John Monash : a military review" (Melbourne University, 1974)
- "The story of Gallipoli" / text by Bill Gammage ; screenplay by David Williamson ; preface by Peter Weir. Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Australia 1981) Released August 1981 as "Gallipoli.", dir. by Peter Weir
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Professor Bill Gammage "ANU Humanitites Research Centre: Professor Bill Gammage". 2005-06-08. http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/people/staff_bios/gammagebio.php Professor Bill Gammage.
- ^ Glen St John Barclay, Caroline Turner (2004) (HTML). A history of the first 30 years of the HRC at The Australian National University. Humanities Research Centre, ANU. http://epress.anu.edu.au/hrc/mobile_devices/ch06.html. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
- ^ "Australia in World War One By Dr Peter Stanley". 2002-03-01. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/australia_04.shtml.
- ^ "Murdock University film database". 2007-06-30. http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2002/gallipoli2.htm.
- ^ "History of the Narrandera Shire". 2005-05-16. http://www.narrandera.nsw.gov.au/about/1012/1033.html.
- ^ "Queensland Premier's Literary Awards". 2006. http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/awardsevents/awards/Queensland_Premiers_Literary_awards/Past_Winners/.
- ^ "Member of the Order of Australia nomination". 2005-06-13. http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1058610&search_type=quick&showInd=true.
[edit] External links
- worldwars/wwone/australia_04.shtml Australia in World War One by Dr Peter Stanley "Bill Gammage, whose 1974 book The Broken Years did so much to renew interest in the Great War in Australia,..."
- Interview with Gammage on ABC International about sport in the Australian Army in W.W. I & II.
- Conference paper by John Carnahan "Bill Gammage's classical study of the history of Narrandera Shire"
- Asia-Pacific Viewpoint Review of The Sky-Travellers
- Murdoch Univ. film database entry on Gallipoli – 1981
