Resources
Use these links to access films and clips discussed in this exhibition.
- "Australia Marches With Britain"
- "Brother, Have You Been Saved?"
- "Fires Were Started"
- The Gentle Sex
- "Girl Lifeguards"
- "Kokoda Front Line!"
- "South-West Pacific"
- "They Serve"
ONLINE FILM ARCHIVES
RELEVANT MUSEUMS AND INSTITUTIONS
- The Australian War Memorial Campbell, Australia
- Bletchley Park Bletchley, UK
- The British Library London, UK
- The Caen Memorial Caen, France
- Darwin Military Museum Darwin, Australia
- The Imperial War Museum London, UK
- The National WW2 Museum New Orleans, USA
SCHOLARLY AND INFORMATIVE WORKS
For the British Empire, Gender, and War
- Jackson, Ashley. The British Empire and the Second World War. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006.
- Levine, Philippa, editor. Gender and Empire. The Oxford History of the British Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
For British Women in the Second World War
- Bruley, Sue. Women in Britain Since 1900. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
- Summerfield, Penny. Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict. Bekenham, UK: Croom Helm Ltd., 1984.
For Australian Women in the Second World War
- Adam-Smith, Patsy. Australian Women at War. Melbourne: Penguin Books Australia, 1984.
- Oppenheimer, Melanie. Australian Women and War. Canberra: Department of Veterans’ Affairs, 2008.
For Wartime Film Propaganda
- Chapman, James. The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939–1945. London: Tauris, 2011.
- Reeves, Nicholas. The Power of Film Propaganda: Myth or Reality. Bloomsbury: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004.