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'Enemy aliens' The treatment of people of enemy-origin in WWI NSW In New South Wales during World War I, people who were born in countries which had become the enemy of the Commonwealth of Australia experienced unique hardships in the face of an increasingly hostile...
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Opposing Conscription Industrial Workers of the World This webpage was developed as part of State Archives’ contribution to History Week 2015. One of the most vocal and radical campaigns against conscription came from the Industrial Workers of the World...
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Conscription Conflict on the Home Front This webpage was developed as part of State Archives’ contribution to History Week 2015. While World War I pitted the Allies against the Germans on the battlefields of Europe, another conflict was taking place on the New...
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'The Truth About German Atrocities', 1915 An abbreviated form of the ‘Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages’ May 1915 saw the release in NSW of the ‘Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages’,[1] which detailed accusations of human rights...
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The Call to Arms State War Council of NSW recruitment periodical, 1916 On 14 February 1916, Premier Holman approved the publication of a ‘weekly gazette’ titled ‘The Call to Arms’,[1] in order to secure “adequate publicity in connection with the Recruiting Campaign”...
