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September 13, 2013
La Trobe University historian and author Dr Janet Butler has won this year’s NSW Premier’s Australian History Prize for her book Kitty’s War, based on the diaries of World War One army nurse, Sister Kit McNaughton. The $15,000 award, one of Australia’s top history prizes, was announced last night. The judges described Dr Butler’s work […]
April 8, 2013
It was a baptism of wartime fire that turned Kit McNaughton into Australia’s first plastic surgery nurse… The amazing achievements of Australian women in World War One – overlooked for a long time by historians – are now finding their rightful place in the pantheon of our war heroes, thanks to writers like La Trobe’s […]
February 20, 2014
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