Charles Bean

Peter Stanley is Research Professor in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society at UNSW Canberra. He has published 30 books, mostly in Australian military history but also in medical history, about the 2009 Black Saturday bushfire, and the military history of British India. He is an Associate Director of ACSACS, the General Editor of the Army’s Cambridge University Press series and President of Honest History. His most recent book (with Vicken Babkenian) is Armenia, Australia & the Great War.

• Foreword by Anne Carroll OAMIntroduction by Peter StanleyPart 1 Charles Bean: Life and WorkFinding the man? Beginning the search for Charles Bean — Stephen EllisCharles Bean on the Western Front — Peter BurnessBean at Tuggeranong — Jennifer HorsfieldRe-reading Bean — Michael McKernanBean and the making of the National Archives of Australia — Anne-Marie CondéThe distributed Bean archive: bigger than we know — Michael PiggottRe-thinking Bean’s philosophy of history — Martin BallBean and official history — Jeffrey GreyCharles Bean’s ‘Straight Line’ — Peter ReesPart 2 The Australian official history traditionAn adequate memorial: Charles Bean and Gavin Long — Peter StanleyConflicts and controversies: the Official History of Australia’s Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1975 — Peter Edwards‘The Malayan Emergency and Konfrontasi’ — Peter DennisThe Vietnam Conflict — Chris ClarkWriting the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations — David HornerDoing History in the Digital Age: Compiling the Regional Command – South war diary — Garth PrattenOfficial History of East Timor/Afghanistan/Iraq — Craig Stockings