Ken Inglis Ken Inglis i(A20041 works by) (a.k.a. Kenneth Stanley Inglis; K. S. Inglis)
Born: Established: 7 Oct 1929 Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 1 Dec 2017
Gender: Male
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1 3 y separately published work icon Dunera Lives : Profiles Ken Inglis , Bill Gammage , Seumas Spark , Jay Winter , Carol Bunyan , Clayton : Monash University Publishing , 2020 23789574 2020 single work biography

'The story of the 'Dunera Boys' is an intrinsic part of the history of Australia in the Second World War and in its aftermath. The injustice these 2000 men suffered through British internment in camps at Hay, Tatura and Orange is well known. Less familiar is the tale of what happened to them afterwards. Following on from volume one Dunera Lives: A Visual History (2018), Dunera Lives: Profiles continues the saga in life stories.

'This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second World War and survived to tell the tale. Here are some of their stories.

'A contribution to the history of Australia, to the history of migrants and migration, and to the history of human rights, these two volumes put in the public domain a story whose full dimensions and complexity have never been described.' (Publication summary)

1 The Odyssey of Leonhard Adam Ken Inglis , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 14 no. 4 2017; (p. 561-578)

'Leonhard Adam (1891–1960) was among the most distinguished internees despatched from England to Australia in 1940 on the infamous HMT Dunera.Penguin Books had lately published his Primitive Art, which was on the way to becoming a standard work. In 1942 he was released in order to study Aboriginal stone artefacts under the supervision of the University of Melbourne’s Professor R.M. Crawford, who secured resources for the making and sustenance of a small ethnological museum attached to the university’s history department. By canny exchange, Adam built a precious collection. He gave sparsely attended lectures, and with some cause believed that Australian colleagues did not greatly value his work. It has been receiving more attention and respect in recent years.' (Abstract)

1 Talk and Chalk Ken Inglis , 2014 single work obituary (for Hank Nelson )
— Appears in: The Boy from Boort : Remembering Hank Nelson 2014; (p. 15-17)
1 The Dunera Boys in History and Memory Ken Inglis , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal , November vol. 21 no. 3 2013; (p. 287-305)
1 Acts of Faith and Doubt Ken Inglis , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 18 August 2012; (p. 29)

— Review of Exile : The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz Roger Averill , 2012 single work biography
1 'Sitting on a Tractor, Reading a Book' Bill Gammage , Ken Inglis , 2012 2012 single work obituary (for Hank Nelson )
— Appears in: Inside Story , February 2012;
1 Untitled Ken Inglis , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal , June vol. 20 no. 4 2012; (p. 614-617)

— Review of To My Brave Wife : Dunera Notes From A Jewish 'Enemy Alien' Kurt Epstein , Lee Kersten (translator), 2011 single work biography
1 From : Sacred Places Ken Inglis , 2009 extract non-fiction (Sacred Places : War Memorials in the Australian Landscape)
— Appears in: Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 773-776)
1 Enter the Australian Ken Inglis , 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: Inside Story , July 2009;
'Rupert Murdoch’s national daily burst into print on 15 July 1964. Ken Inglis assessed the new paper later that month for Nation magazine'
1 10 y separately published work icon Whose ABC? : The Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1983-2006 Ken Inglis , Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2006 Z1292114 2006 single work criticism
1 Aunty's Story Ken Inglis , 2003 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 62 no. 2 2003; (p. 162-172)
1 1 y separately published work icon Observing Australia : 1959-1999 Ken Inglis , Craig Wilcox (editor), Carlton South : Melbourne University Press , 2000 Z896260 2000 selected work prose
1 Funeral Oration for Geoffrey Serle, 30 April 1998 Ken Inglis , 1999 single work obituary (for Geoffrey Serle )
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 156 1999; (p. 75-77)
1 3 y separately published work icon Sacred Places : War Memorials in the Australian Landscape Ken Inglis , Carlton : Miegunyah Press , 1998 Z1065027 1998 single work non-fiction

'Memorials to Australian participation in wars abound in our landscape. From Melbourne's huge Shrine of Remembrance to the modest marble soldier, obelisk or memorial hall in suburb and country town, they mourn and honour Australians who have served and died for their country. Surprisingly, they have largely escaped scrutiny. Ken Inglis argues that the imagery, rituals and rhetoric generated around memorials constitute a civil religion, a cult of ANZAC. Sacred Places traces three elements which converged to create the cult: the special place of war in the European mind when nationalism was at its zenith; the colonial condition; and the death of so many young men in distant battle, which impelled the bereaved to make substitutes for the graves of which history had deprived them. The 'war memorial movement' attracted conflict as well as commitment. Inglis looks at uneasy acceptance, even rejection, of the cult by socialists, pacifists, feminists and some Christians, and at its virtual exclusion of Aborigines. He suggests that between 1918 and 1939 the making, dedication and use of memorials enhanced the power of the right in Australian public life. Finally, he examines a paradox. Why, as Australia's wars recede in public and private memory, and as a once British Australia becomes multicultural, have the memorials and what they stand for become more cherished than ever? Sacred Places spans war, religion, politics, language and the visual arts. Ken Inglis has distilled new cultural understandings from a familiar landscape.' (Publication summary)

1 Cultural Cringe Ken Inglis , 1997 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 24 October 1997;

'Sir, – What does Robert Potts, reviewing Peter Porter’s anthology The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse (October 3), mean by saying that A. D. Hope’s “Augustan line . . . owes more to English education than Australian residence”? Doesn’t he know that Hope went to New South Wales schools and the University of Sydney before spending at Oxford three of his so far ninety years? Does he imagine that Augustan models are unknown to Australian residents?'  (Introduction)

1 Remembering Manning Clark Ken Inglis , 1991 single work biography
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 124 1991; (p. 23-28)
1 1 y separately published work icon Nation : The Life of an Independent Journal of Opinion 1958-1972 Ken Inglis (editor), Carlton South : Melbourne University Press , 1989 Z153411 1989 anthology prose biography
1 Stephen Murray-Smith 1922-1988 Ken Inglis , 1988 single work obituary (for Stephen Murray-Smith )
— Appears in: Overland , October no. 112 1988; (p. 15-16)
1 5 y separately published work icon This Is the ABC : The Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1932-1983 Ken Inglis , Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1983 Z1304993 1983 single work criticism

'As the bells in the tower of Sydney's General Post Office chimed eight o'clock on the evening of Friday 1 July 1932, the peals were picked up by a microphone and carried to every State of the Federation. 'This is the Australian Broadcasting Commission,' said the announcer, Conrad Charlton.

'So begins K.S. Inglis's compelling history of the first fifty years of the ABC. In a sparkling tour de force Inglis shows us the ABC's triumphs and failures, its great medley of personalities and the effects it has had on Australian public life. Based on the Commission's own archives, on newspapers and journals, on a rich assortment of interviews and on the author's own listening and viewing, this is a social history of the highest order.' (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon Australian Colonists : An Exploration of Social History 1788-1870 Ken Inglis , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1974 Z333595 1974 single work criticism
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