Bill Gammage

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William Leonard Gammage

Born 1942
Orange, NSW
Occupation Historian
Spouse Jan

William Leonard "Bill" Gammage (born 1942) is an Australian academic historian, Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Center of Australian National University. He was born in Orange, NSW, went to 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 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 he wrote in 1974. 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 Center 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

[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 (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 (2005). "Far more happier than we Europeans" : Aborigines and farmers. London: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies. OCLC: 137333394. 

[edit] Periodical 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
  • "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.
  • "My Gun, My Brother. the World of the Papua New Guinea Colonial Police 1920-1960" Oceania, Vol. 70, 1999.

[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

  1. ^ a b "Professor Bill Gammage ANU Humanitites Research Centre: Professor Bill Gammage", June 8, 2005. 
  2. ^ Glen St John Barclay, Caroline Turner (2004). "A history of the first 30 years of the HRC at The Australian National University" (HTML). . Humanities Research Centre, ANU Retrieved on 2007-07-02.
  3. ^ "Australia in World War One By Dr Peter Stanley", March 01, 2002. 
  4. ^ "Murdock University film database", June 30, 2007. 
  5. ^ "History of the Narrandera Shire", May 16, 2005. 
  6. ^ "Queensland Premier's Literary Awards", 2006. 
  7. ^ "Member of the Order of Australia nomination", June 13, 2005. 

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Persondata
NAME Gammage, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Australian Professor of History
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH