Summary
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 next book will examine how the English-speaking world has gone to war over the past couple of centuries.
Experience
- Historian, Australian War Memorial 2004 – 2005
- Historian, Australian War Memorial 1993 – 1996
Education
- Deakin , Graduate Certificate in museum studies, 2003
- Australian National University, PhD in Australian history, 1994
Publications
- Home Front: Australians in World War I , Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra 2012
- Red Coat Dreaming: how colonial Australia embraced the British army, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 2009
- Australia’s Boer War, Oxford University Press, Melbourne 2002
- For Hearths and Homes: citizen soldiering in Australia 1854-1945, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1998
Grants and Contracts
- History of Australia's part in the South African War 1899-1902 (1999)
- Role: Author
- Funding Source: Australian War Memorial
- Australian Bicentennial Fellow and Rydon Fellow (1998)
- Role: Researcher
- Funding Source: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Available for
- Contract Research
- Speaking Engagements
- Media Interviews