David Sutton
@drdavesutton.bsky.social
Senior Historian, Australian War Memorial. Second World War and Australian Peacekeeping 1947-present.
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Come and study with us! It'll be fun!
Applications are open for the Australian War Memorial Summer Scholars program, to be held in Canberra next Jan-Feb.
Apply here: www.awm.gov.au/get-involved...
Applications are open for the Australian War Memorial Summer Scholars program, to be held in Canberra next Jan-Feb.
Apply here: www.awm.gov.au/get-involved...
September 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Come and study with us! It'll be fun!
Applications are open for the Australian War Memorial Summer Scholars program, to be held in Canberra next Jan-Feb.
Apply here: www.awm.gov.au/get-involved...
Applications are open for the Australian War Memorial Summer Scholars program, to be held in Canberra next Jan-Feb.
Apply here: www.awm.gov.au/get-involved...
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This #BookFriday don’t forget to book your free tickets for next week’s author talk at the @AWMemorial! Join us as Michael Veitch discusses his latest 📖 on the Borneo campaigns in 1945. See: awm.gov.au/author-talk-mi… #WeHaveWaysy#WWIIII
August 29, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This #BookFriday don’t forget to book your free tickets for next week’s author talk at the @AWMemorial! Join us as Michael Veitch discusses his latest 📖 on the Borneo campaigns in 1945. See: awm.gov.au/author-talk-mi… #WeHaveWaysy#WWIIII
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The Australian War Memorial's special #VPDay symposium "Interpreting Australia's Second World War: previewing Anzac Hall" is now online: www.youtube.com/live/P6vGj8_....
For more #WWII see, including author talks, see: www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-t...
#WeHaveWays #WWII #VJDay80
For more #WWII see, including author talks, see: www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-t...
#WeHaveWays #WWII #VJDay80
August 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The Australian War Memorial's special #VPDay symposium "Interpreting Australia's Second World War: previewing Anzac Hall" is now online: www.youtube.com/live/P6vGj8_....
For more #WWII see, including author talks, see: www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-t...
#WeHaveWays #WWII #VJDay80
For more #WWII see, including author talks, see: www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-t...
#WeHaveWays #WWII #VJDay80
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Very happy to see the photographic exhibition I curated “Victory in the Pacific!”is now on display at the Australian War Memorial.
It’s free! Come & have a look:
www.awm.gov.au/articles/blo...
#WeHaveWays #WWII
It’s free! Come & have a look:
www.awm.gov.au/articles/blo...
#WeHaveWays #WWII
August 1, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Very happy to see the photographic exhibition I curated “Victory in the Pacific!”is now on display at the Australian War Memorial.
It’s free! Come & have a look:
www.awm.gov.au/articles/blo...
#WeHaveWays #WWII
It’s free! Come & have a look:
www.awm.gov.au/articles/blo...
#WeHaveWays #WWII
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There are some good #NavalHistory photos in here. CAPT James Buchanan, RAN, was in charge of one of the three Allied naval brigades that first went ashore in Japan after the surrender, and was the first Australian to enter Japan after the armistice, on (I think) 30 Aug 1945.
August 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
There are some good #NavalHistory photos in here. CAPT James Buchanan, RAN, was in charge of one of the three Allied naval brigades that first went ashore in Japan after the surrender, and was the first Australian to enter Japan after the armistice, on (I think) 30 Aug 1945.
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The Australian War Memorial is marking the 80th anniversary of the end of #WWII in a variety of ways, including with free author talks. First up is the award winning @kristenauthor.bsky.social!
For more see: www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-t...
For more see: www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-t...
May 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The Australian War Memorial is marking the 80th anniversary of the end of #WWII in a variety of ways, including with free author talks. First up is the award winning @kristenauthor.bsky.social!
For more see: www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-t...
For more see: www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-t...
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We're very proud of the Australian War Memorial's new print & digital magazine WM 🎉 Our first issue features @claremulley.bsky.social Peter Caddick-Adams Mat McLachlan @drdavesutton.bsky.social & others.
Sign up now: wm.awm.gov.au
❤️for a chance to win a copy.
#WeHaveWays #VEDay80 #VEDay2025
Sign up now: wm.awm.gov.au
❤️for a chance to win a copy.
#WeHaveWays #VEDay80 #VEDay2025
May 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
We're very proud of the Australian War Memorial's new print & digital magazine WM 🎉 Our first issue features @claremulley.bsky.social Peter Caddick-Adams Mat McLachlan @drdavesutton.bsky.social & others.
Sign up now: wm.awm.gov.au
❤️for a chance to win a copy.
#WeHaveWays #VEDay80 #VEDay2025
Sign up now: wm.awm.gov.au
❤️for a chance to win a copy.
#WeHaveWays #VEDay80 #VEDay2025
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Very productive morning working in the @AWMemorial’s new reading room this morning 🪶 📖 The new Charles Bean Research Centre is now open. The facilities are incredible, the views are beautiful & the staff are always knowledgeable. I’ve already picked out “my” research desk 😏
March 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Very productive morning working in the @AWMemorial’s new reading room this morning 🪶 📖 The new Charles Bean Research Centre is now open. The facilities are incredible, the views are beautiful & the staff are always knowledgeable. I’ve already picked out “my” research desk 😏
Great to see this publication arrive in the mail today!
March 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Great to see this publication arrive in the mail today!
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Coming out soon! Glad to have contributed a chapter (co-authored with the University of Wollongong’s Stephen Brown) to this important book.
Coming out soon! Glad to have contributed a chapter (co-authored with the University of Wollongong’s Stephen Brown) to this important book.
The Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies
This handbook brings together historical and contemporary essays about Soviet and Russian military studies, to offer a comprehensive volume on the topic.
Comprising essays written by acknowledged spec...
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January 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Coming out soon! Glad to have contributed a chapter (co-authored with the University of Wollongong’s Stephen Brown) to this important book.
Coming out soon! Glad to have contributed a chapter (co-authored with the University of Wollongong’s Stephen Brown) to this important book.
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Free download of e-copy first two weeks after publication. Get yours here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine
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November 27, 2024 at 7:17 AM
Free download of e-copy first two weeks after publication. Get yours here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Very proud to have contributed to this excellent volume ‘Special Operations: India, Burma, China and Malaya’ in Andrew Kilsby & Daryl Moran (eds), In the fight: Australians and the war in Burma, 1942–1945 academia.edu/125872084/_Spe…#WeHaveWaysy#HistBookChatat
November 27, 2024 at 4:41 AM
Very proud to have contributed to this excellent volume ‘Special Operations: India, Burma, China and Malaya’ in Andrew Kilsby & Daryl Moran (eds), In the fight: Australians and the war in Burma, 1942–1945 academia.edu/125872084/_Spe…#WeHaveWaysy#HistBookChatat
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Wonderful book launch yesterday of “In the Fight: Australians and the War in Burma” @ The Shrine of Remembrance. Many contributors were present, including my @AWMemorial colleagues @Meghan1_Adams @anthea_gunn & Alexandra Torrens, as well as children of veterans.
#WeHaveWays
#WeHaveWays
November 18, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Wonderful book launch yesterday of “In the Fight: Australians and the War in Burma” @ The Shrine of Remembrance. Many contributors were present, including my @AWMemorial colleagues @Meghan1_Adams @anthea_gunn & Alexandra Torrens, as well as children of veterans.
#WeHaveWays
#WeHaveWays