Military History Section Staff Biographies
Dr Robert Nichols
Robert
Nichols is the Memorial's Senior Editor. He has worked at the Memorial since
1995, when he joined Education & Visitor Services as an Education Officer.
Between 1996 and 2001 he worked in Gallery Development, putting together
exhibitions for a new Orientation Gallery and, later, for ANZAC Hall. Originally
a history teacher in Sydney, he came to Canberra in 1990 to undertake a PhD
in philosophy at the Australian National University, where he then lectured
and tutored before joining the Memorial. He continues to teach a regular
workshop in critical thinking skills at the ANU's Centre for Continuing Education.
Robert currently edits the Memorial's magazine Wartime. Recent exhibitions
he has worked on include: Shaping memory: sculpture at the Australian
War Memorial; Captured in colour: rare photographs of the First
World War; Australians in Iraq 2003; Stolen years: Australian prisoners
of war; Keeping the peace: stories of Australian peacekeepers; Stella
Bowen: Art, Love & War; Peter Churcher, official artist: the
war against terrorism; A cruel sea: the sinking of HMAS Armidale; Sir
William Dargie: celebrating 90 years.
Selected publications:
"The first kamikaze attack?", Wartime, issue 28, October 2004.
Review of Intelligence in war, by John Keegan, Wartime, issue 25, January 2004.
Review of The face of battle, ed. by John Reeve & David Stevens, Wartime, issue 25, January 2004.
"A small irony of war", Wartime, issue 24, October 2003.
"Captue of the Amiens gun", Wartime, issue 23, July 2003.
"The battle of Bismarck Sea", Wartime, issue 21, January 2003.
"Hackneyed, slipshod writing", review of Gallipoli: our last man standing: the extraordinary life of Alec Campbell, by Jonathan King & Gallipoli: the Turkish story, by Kevin Fewster, Vecihi Basarin & Hatice Basarin, Canberra Times, 3 May 2003
Review of The First World War: Volume 1: To arms, by Hew Strachan, Wartime, issue 20, October 2002.
"In defence of punctuation* ... (*and footnotes)", Radio National website, transcript of Lingua Franca talk, 29 September 2002.
"Heroes roll", Enmag, Issue 1, Winter 2002, p. 22.
"Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett 1881-1931", Wartime, Issue 18, Autumn 2002, p. 45.
"Short-lived menace", Wartime, Issue 17, Autumn 2002, pp. 21-24.
"Review of Joanna Burke, The Second World War: a people's history", Wartime, Issue 17, Autumn 2002, p. 67.
"Two perceptions of Pearl Harbor", Wartime, Issue 16, Summer 2001, p. 64.
"Beached and done for: the Sydney-Emden fight", Wartime, Issue 15, Spring 2001, pp. 8-11.
"Review of David Phillips, Exhibiting authenticity", Museums National, Vol. 8, No. 1, August 1999, p. 27.
"Outside the wire: A new education program at the Australian War Memorial", Teaching History, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 1996, pp. 75-77.
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