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Anne-Marie CondéAnne-Marie Condé

Anne-Marie Condé began working as historian at the Australian War Memorial in 1993. She participated in several of the Memorial’s large exhibition re-development projects and has worked on many conferences and publications. She has an interest in the social and cultural impact of war, and researches and writes on the history of the Memorial and its collections. She is writing a biography of John Treloar, the Memorial’s Director from 1920 until 1952.

In August 2008 Anne-Marie began working as a curator at the National Museum of Australia.

Refereed publications

"John Treloar, official war art and the Australian War Memorial", Australian Journal of Politics and History (53) 3, September 2007, 451-464. Available at: www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ajph/53/3

" 'War history on scraps of paper': exhibitions of documents at the Australian War Memorial, 1922-1954", Public History Review (14), 2007, 25-43. Available at: epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/phrj/article/view/301

"Imagining a collection: creating Australia's records of war", reCollections: the Journal of the National Museum of Australia 2 (1), March 2007

“The symbolic significance of archives: a discussion”, Archives and Manuscripts 33 (2), November 2005, 92–109

“Capturing the records of war: collecting at the Mitchell Library and the Australian War Memorial”, Australian Historical Studies 125, April 2005, 134–152

“ ‘The ordeal of adjustment’: Australian psychiatric casualties of the Second World War”, War & Society 15 (2), October 1997, 61–74

Selected other publications

"Words for warrriors", Wartime 40, 2007, 60-63

"Displaying destruction", Wartime 39, 2007, 24-27

"A clerk's eye view of Gallipoli", Wartime 38, 2007, 32-33

“Death on the record”, Wartime 34, 2006, 44-47

“The man behind the man behind the gun”, Wartime 33, 2006, 32–35

“Caring for the past”, Wartime 32, 2005, 40–43

“Cowra breakout”, Wartime 27, 2004, 6–9

“The burden of grief”, Wartime 26, 2004, 50–53

“ ‘The strain of watching’: the origins of the Pozières diorama “, Wartime 7, Spring 1999, 34–36.

With Chris Goddard, “The remains of the day: a boat and diary from the landings on Gallipoli”, Wartime 5, 1999, 15–21

“Stories of emotion and experience: connecting with the past at the Australian War Memorial'”, Journal of the Australian War Memorial 27, October 1995, 34–36

“A marriage of sculpture and art: dioramas at the Memorial”, Journal of the Australian War Memorial 19, November 1991, 56–59