{"abbreviations":{},"aggregated_contexts":{},"claims":[],"contexts":[],"equations":[],"facts":["In this article the author interrupts that seamless journey from the battlefield","women who tended to come into possession of dead soldiers\u2019 diaries and letters","the nominated of kin","as a case\u2010study a program to collect Great War soldiers\u2019 diaries and letters undertaken by the Australian War Memorial"],"findings":["The author examines the collection of Great War soldiers' diaries and letters by the Australian War Memorial in the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on the role of women in transmitting memory and the connection between personal, national, household, and institutional memories."],"headline":"In this article the author interrupts that seamless journey from the battlefield to the archive to the history book, and treats soldiers\u2019 diaries and letters not as texts but objects of memory, as did bereaved relatives during and after the Great War in Australia","key_statements":["In this article the author interrupts that seamless journey from the battlefield to the archive to the history book, and treats soldiers\u2019 diaries and letters not as texts but objects of memory, as did bereaved relatives during and after the Great War in Australia","Taking as a case\u2010study a program to collect Great War soldiers\u2019 diaries and letters undertaken by the Australian War Memorial in the 1920s and 1930s, the author explores aspects of the gendered nature of collecting: women\u2019s role in the generational transmission of memory, and their link between personal and national memory, and household/family and archive/institution"],"keyword_relevance":{},"keywords":["Great War","Collecting Women\u2019s Memories","seamless journey","Australia","battlefield experience","Great War soldier","Womens Memories","Australian War Memorial"],"metadata":{"abstract":"Historians typically use soldiers\u2019 diaries and letters to validate battlefield experiences. In this article the author interrupts that seamless journey from the battlefield to the archive to the history book, and treats soldiers\u2019 diaries and letters not as texts but objects of memory, as did bereaved relatives during and after the Great War in Australia. Significantly, it was women who tended to come into possession of dead soldiers\u2019 diaries and letters, as they were more often than not the nominated next of kin. Taking as a case\u2010study a program to collect Great War soldiers\u2019 diaries and letters undertaken by the Australian War Memorial in the 1920s and 1930s, the author explores aspects of the gendered nature of collecting: women\u2019s role in the generational transmission of memory, and their link between personal and national memory, and household/family and archive/institution. This article also invites reconsideration about the nature of historical evidence: are diaries and letters solely texts whose linguistic signs are \u2018evidence of experience\u2019 or are they simultaneously material artefacts that offer fresh understandings of women\u2019s lives?","affiliations":["KIMEP University"],"author":"Tanja Luckins","cited_by":11,"cited_by_api_url":"","date":2010,"full_date":"2010-01-20T00:00:00Z","identifiers":{"doi":"10.1080/09612020903444635","pmcid":"","pmid":"","url":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020903444635"},"journal":"Women s History Review","language":"en","message":"Document contains no extractable text","page":"21-37","source":"OpenAlex","title":"Collecting Women\u2019s Memories: the Australian War Memorial, the next of kin and Great War soldiers\u2019 diaries and letters as objects of memory in the 1920s and 1930s","type":"article","volume":"19","word_count":"175"},"participants":[],"populations":[],"prevalence":[],"processes":[],"reference_links":[],"sections":{"future_work":[],"limitations":[]},"species":[],"statistics":[],"structured_content":[],"structured_summary":{},"study_features":{"snapshot_conclusions":[],"snapshot_methods":[],"snapshot_results":[]},"summary":[],"unstructured_content":null}