Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0883705

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0883705

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A Land Fit for Heroes. A Social, Cultural and Environmental History of Soldier Settlement in New South Wales, 1916-1939. The digger has an iconographic status in Australian society; thousands of families have charted the service records of relatives who served in the first AIF. This project will recover the returned soldier as important an historical entity as the men (and women) who went to war. It will look at ways our society tried to recover from the trauma of war, examine our veterans' return to Australia and their difficult readjustment to civil society. Soldier settlers faced a new battle in opening up the land. Like many in regional NSW today, they struggled against isolation, drought and financial hardship. This project will evaluate the role soldier settlement played in populating remote districts and assess its long-term environmental costs.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2008

End Date: 31-12-2012

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $191,007.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | History: Australian |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Federalism in Australia | Civics and citizenship |

Other Keywords

Civics and citizenship | Federalism in Australia | Historical Studies | History: Australian | Understanding Australia'S Past

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