UWS is currently hosting Shell-shocked: Australia After Armistice, a travelling exhibition from the National Archives of Australia. The exhibition explores Australia's struggle with the lingering effects of World War I.
As well as the moving personal stories of WWI veterans and their families, the exhibition will showcase: the original folio that was used by Prime Minister Billy Hughes and Deputy Prime Minister Joseph Cook to carry a copy of the Treaty of Versailles back to Australia in in 1919; a copy of the cablegram sent from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, London, to the Australian Prime Minister's Department on 11 November 1918 announcing that the signing of the Armistice was going ahead; and the diary of Deputy Prime Minister Joseph Cook from 1919. Visitors to the exhibition are also provided with the opportunity to research their own family military history through the Mapping Our Anzacs website, which we talked about on Spatial Source back in April.
Included in the exhibition is a free workshop from 10:30am to 11:45am on Monday September 5th, in which Andrew Jones, Reference Officer from the National Archives of Australia, will provide a guided tour of the Shell-shocked exhibition, as well as a demonstration of how to use the National Archives' Mapping Our Anzacs website in family history and other research.
Please contact Amy Sambrooke on 02 9685 9187 or info@whitlam.org to make a booking for this workshop. Places are free but bookings are essential.
The exhibition runs until 23 September 2011
Monday to Friday, 10am – 4pm
Entry $5.00, but free for UWS Staff and students, Veterans, War Widows and their families. For group bookings please contact Amy Sambrooke on 02 9685 9187
Venue: Historic Female Orphan School Gallery (Building EZ)
University of Western Sydney
Cnr James Ruse Dr & Victoria Rd
Rydalmere NSW
Developed by the National Archives of Australia with the support of the Department of Veterans' Affairs
