- Paperback: 236 pages
- Publisher: Australian National University (1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0731521439
- ISBN-13: 978-0731521432
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Craig Wilcox is a historian who lives and writes in Sydney, Australia's oldest city. He studied under Beverley Kingston and K. S. Inglis, has had fellowships at the National Museum of Australia and the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies in London, and has worked at the Australian War Memorial. His professional interests lie in the intersection of war, art and literature, and in good writing. His professional competence is Australian military history in its widest cultural sense, from 1788 to 1915 or so. See his website at http://craigwilcox.myob.net/ (this address won't appear as a link, so type it into your search engine).
Or, to put things more prosaically: Born Sydney Australia 1959. Educated at state schools, art colleges (1978-81), University of New South Wales (BA Hons 1990) and Australian National University (PhD 1994). Member of various Sydney post-punk bands (1978-81). Employed as public servant (1982-90) and as museum historian and consultant (1993-6, 1999-2002, 2003-5), notably at the Australian War Memorial. Author of For Hearths and Homes: Citizen Soldiering in Australia (1998), Australia's Boer War (2002), Red Coat Dreaming: How Colonial Australia embraced the British Army (2009), plus articles and booklets. Current projects (2012) include a short illustrated book on life in Australia during the Great war and a study of the English-speaking world at war over the past two centuries. Takes occasional tours for the NSW Historic Houses Trust.
