Anna Clark

Anna Clark is a Future Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is the co-author of History Wars (2003) and the author of History’s Children: History Wars in the Classroom (2008). Her current research, Every Now and Then: Navigating History in Australia, explores Australians' historical consciousness in the context of public debates about the past.

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Trench Warfare: The Honest History Book
It seems we are living through a near perfect storm of Anzac historical consumption, with a number of factors working in concert. First, Australian historical narratives have been deeply challenged by the emergence and power of Indigenous historic...
18 Sept. 2017
An epic forgetting: Forgotten War & The Black War
The recent skirmishes over the meaning of Anzac Day and the implementation of the national history curriculum suggest that Forgotten War is unlikely to dampen the flames of historiographical contest. But Reynolds claims that Nicholas Clements’ Bla...
29 Aug. 2014

Works Featuring Anna Clark

The Time Police
'One surprisingly persistent theme in Making Australian History is the historical significance of literature, and in particular poetry. Can a poem ‘know’ something, ‘think’ something that history cannot?'
23 Oct. 2022

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Anna Clark

Works By Anna Clark

Trench Warfare: The Honest History Book

An epic forgetting: Forgotten War & The Black War

Works Featuring Anna Clark

The Time Police