Podcast: The Queensland Homefront (A night in the JOL)

By JOL Admin | 29 April 2014

Much is known and celebrated about the exploits of Australian soldiers during the Great War. Far less is understood of the society they left behind and how the ordeal of waging war transformed it.

Listen to historians Professor Raymond Evans and Mr Mark Cryle in conversation with journalist Ian Townsend as they discuss the deep-seated social conflicts that intensified under the stress of wartime conditions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l5j_czcFBo

A night in the JOL - The Queensland homefront. L to R - Professor Raymond Evans, Ian Townsend and Mark Cryle

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