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1 Kenneth Stanley Inglis AO (1929–2017) Raelene Frances , Bruce Scates , 2018 single work obituary (for Ken Inglis )
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 49 no. 1 2018; (p. 410-412)

Kenneth Stanley Inglis died of pancreatic cancer on 1 December 2017. He continued to write until a few days before his death, imparting careful instructions to Jay Winter and Seamus Spark, on their collective two-volume biography of the 'Dunera Boys'. It says much about Ken Inglis that his last work was a collaborative endeavour, and a project that profiled the talent of both established and early career scholars. As Frank Bongiorno, one of many grateful students, has noted, the measure of Inglis' scholarship is not just the distinctive contribution he made to our discipline, but the opportunities he created all his life for others.'  (Introduction)

1 ‘Letters from a Pilgrimage’: Reflection on the 1965 Return to Gallipoli Bruce Scates , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 14 no. 4 2017; (p. 530-544)

'This article examines Ken Inglis’s journey to Gallipoli in 1965, marking the 50th anniversary of the Landing. It involves a detailed consideration of his earliest writings on this subject, drawing on unpublished manuscripts held by the National Library. The article uses this study as an opportunity to examine the character and method of Inglis’s historical writing and situate this early work within the corpus of a larger body of scholarship. It contrasts Inglis’s nuanced and carefully argued account – his ethnographic approach to the gathering of testimony, close observance of ritual and language and the bold sweep of his writing – with the less searching and more reductionist approach taken by some subsequent critics of Gallipoli pilgrimage. One of the article’s key concerns is to consider how the character of commemoration has changed over time: it compares and contrasts this first large-scale return to Gallipoli (over 300 World War One veterans embarked on the ‘Jubilee Pilgrimage’) with more recent journeys to Anzac. It argues that with the passing of the generation that witnessed the Great War, ‘Anzac’ has lost much of its historical specificity and that the increasingly performative aspects of commemoration have served to overwhelm its original meanings.' (Introduction)

1 y separately published work icon World War One : A History in 100 Stories Bruce Scates , Rebecca Wheatley , Laura James , Melbourne : Penguin , 2015 8677773 2015 selected work essay correspondence autobiography

'World War One: a history in 100 stories remembers not just the men who fought, and those who lost their lives in during the battles of WWI. We hear the stories of the women and families who were affected, and those who returned to Australia: the gassed, the crippled, the insane - all those irreparably damaged by war.

'There has been no shortage of heroic stories over the course of the Anzac Centenary: stories of courage and sacrifice, fortitude and endurance, mateship and resolve. But a hundred years on, there is a need for other stories as well - the stories too often marginalised in favour of nation-building narratives.

'Drawn from a unique collection of sources, including repatriation files, these heartbreaking and deeply personal stories reveal a broken and suffering generation - gentle men driven to violence, mothers sent insane with grief, the hopelessness of rehabilitation and the quiet, pervasive sadness of loss.

'This is an unflinching and remarkable social history that makes an important contribution to the way we remember. Telling the whole truth about war requires its own kind of courage.' (Publication summary)

1 4 y separately published work icon On Dangerous Ground : A Gallipoli Story Bruce Scates , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2012 Z1848655 2012 single work novel 'This eagerly awaited novel by one of Australia's leading historians, uses fact and fiction to recreate the most dramatic moments of the Gallipoli campaign. Featuring a selection of paintings by the Australian artist George Lambert, On Dangerous Ground recounts Gallipoli's battle scenes with a page-turning energy as the author ultimately reminds us of the human cost of war.

In 1915 Lt Roy Irwin goes missing at Gallipoli. The young woman who loves him and the men who fought beside him begin their search. In 1919, historian CEW Bean returns to Anzac with artist George Lambert and soldier Harry Vickers to solve the greatest mystery of the campaign, to discover Gallipoli's secret.

Forward to 2015, and Dr Mark Troy's quest to preserve the peninsula from roadworks is sidetracked by political intervention and diplomatic intrigue. But a flirtation with a dynamic young woman from Army Intelligence uncovers long-forgotten documents protecting Gallipoli's graves.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 A 'Democratic' Rendezvous' : The Bookshops of Radical Sydney Bruce Scates , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Radical Sydney : Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes 2010; (p. 89-96)
'George Black, founder of Sydney’s Republican League and the first Labor member of Parliament in New South Wales, socialist, secularist, slanderer, boozer, Labor rat and sexual libertine, will no doubt be remembered for many things. But he should be praised by us all as an insatiable, inspired and extraordinarily eclectic reader.' (p. 89)
1 My Brilliant Career and Radicalism Bruce Scates , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 20 no. 4 2002; (p. 370-378)
1 `Knowledge is Power': Radical Literary Culture and the Experience of Reading Bruce Scates , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , First Quarter vol. 21 no. 1 1997; (p. 27-47)
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