By Dr Rhys Crawley

Conference Presentations

Crawley R, 2025, 'Inside GHQ: The Gallipoli Diary of Captain Orlo Williams', presented at Gallipoli Association Online Conference, 12 July 2025

Crawley R, 2024, 'Official History in Australia', presented at IHR Seminar Series: Official History, Past, Present and Future, University of London, 11 December 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPnRdHtsWEU

Crawley R, 2024, 'Producing Official History', presented at Leiden University/Netherlands Defence Academy intelligence studies research group, The Hague, 02 December 2024

Crawley R, 2024, 'Navigating the 20 years of US/NATO intervention/war in Afghanistan', presented at NIOD-NIMH Afghanistan Experts meeting, Istanbul, 08 November 2024 - 09 November 2024, https://nederlandafghanistan.org/en/artikelen/expert-meeting-in-istanbul/

Crawley R, 2024, 'Reflecting on the challenges of writing an official history of Australian operations in Afghanistan', presented at 32nd Annual Conference, British International History Group, London, 05 September 2024 - 06 September 2024

Crawley R, 2024, 'ASIO and Cold War Counter Espionage', presented at Game of Dominos, Military History and Heritage Victoria, Melbourne, 13 April 2024

Crawley R, 2023, 'Gallipoli: Sustainment from the Sea', presented at In Brown and Green Waters: Australian Army Operations in the Littoral. Chief of Army History Conference, Canberra, 16 November 2023

Crawley R, 2023, 'Lessons from the Australian Official History', presented at NIOD-NIMH Afghanistan Experts meeting, Amsterdam, 28 September 2023 - 29 August 2023, https://nederlandafghanistan.org/en/artikelen/international-expert-meeting-in-amsterdam/

Crawley R, 2022, 'The Gallipoli Campaign: An Australian Perspective', presented at Gallipoli Revisited: International Conference of the United Service Institution of India and the Indian Council of World Affairs, Online, 22 April 2022

Crawley R, 2021, 'Mobilising for war: case studies from the ADF’s Afghanistan commitments, 2005-2006', presented at Contingencies and compromises: mobilising the Australian Army, Online, 10 November 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QMCXUGk24

Crawley R, 2019, 'Find, file, write: Working on the Official History of Australian Operations in Afghanistan', presented at The War in Afghanistan as an Historiographical Challenge: An International Survey, Potsdam, 28 November 2019

Crawley R, 2019, 'Amphibious logistics 1944-45', presented at Royal Australian Navy King-Hall Naval History Conference, Sydney, 08 October 2019

Crawley R, 2019, 'Baptism of fire: CH-47 operations in Afghanistan', presented at Australian Army Aviation Corps conference, Brisbane, 07 August 2019

Crawley R, 2019, 'Australia and the war in Afghanistan', presented at SDSC War Studies Seminar Series, no. 38, Canberra, 17 June 2019

Crawley R, 2019, 'Lessons from Australia’s war in Afghanistan', presented at Afghanistan: Lessons Learned conference, Institute for the Study of War and Strategy, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 11 February 2019 - 13 February 2019

Crawley R, 2018, 'A unique model? A history of the Australian intelligence community', presented at RAAF Intelligence Conference, Canberra, 20 September 2018

Crawley R, 2015, 'Australian logistics in the First World War', presented at RAAOC conference: Logistics: Past, Present and Future, Bandiana, 08 October 2015

Crawley R, 2015, 'Logistics and the Oboe operations', presented at Asia-Pacific War, 1931-1945, Canberra, 10 July 2015

Crawley R, 2015, 'Making the legend? The legacy and influence of the Gallipoli official histories', presented at Exploring the Legacy of the ANZACs: Gallipoli 100 Years On, Deakin University, 16 April 2015

Crawley R, 2015, 'Circumnavigating the globe: The Royal Australian Navy during the First World War', presented at The First World War: Local, Global and Imperial Perspectives, University of Newcastle, 26 March 2015

Crawley R, 2014, 'Logistics at Gallipoli', presented at ANZAC Defence Logistics Conference, Canberra, 17 November 2014

Crawley R, 2013, 'Naval command, co-operation and capability during the Dardanelles campaign', presented at Royal Australian Navy King-Hall Naval History Conference, ‘The war at sea: 1914-18, Canberra, 23 May 2013

Crawley R, 2010, 'Supplying the offensive: the role of Allied logistics', presented at Australian War Memorial International Conference, Gallipoli: A ridge too far, Australian War Memorial, 05 August 2010 - 06 August 2010

Crawley R, 2009, 'The official war historians and their impact on contemporary understandings of Gallipoli', presented at Australian Historical Association Conference: Constructing the Past, University of the Sunshine Coast, 01 July 2009

Crawley R, 2009, 'Understanding the August Offensive: An Operational Analysis', presented at Second International Gallipoli Symposium: Gallipoli and National Imagination, Australian National University, 15 April 2009 - 16 April 2009

Reports

Townsend N; Moss T; Booth M; Richardson T; Hutchison M; Stahel D; Crawley R; Dunley R, 2025, Understanding Attitudes to Australian Military History

Dunley R; Moss T; Townsend N; Booth M; Crawley R; Hutchinson M; Richardson T, 2025, Public Attitudes Towards the Australian Defence Force Iterim Report, https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/unsw-canberra/hass/Public%20Attitudes%20Towards%20the%20Australian%20Defence%20Force%20Survey%20Interim%20Report%20v3.pdf

Dunley R; Moss T; Townsend N; Booth M; Crawley R; Hutchison M; Richardson T, 2025, Public Attitudes towards the Australian Defence Force: Final Report, UNSW Canberra, Canberra, https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/unsw-canberra/hass/Public%20Attitudes%20Towards%20the%20ADF%20Report%20-V3.pdf

Stockings C; Crawley R, 2024, Scoping Study: The Official History of Australia on Global Operations, 2001-2023

Curatorial Outputs

Crawley R, 2015, Journey to the Front Line (audio tour), exhibited at: Australian War Memorial, Canberra, -

Media

Crawley R, 2021, Afghanistan, https://truebluehistory.libsyn.com/true-blue-history-dr-rhys-crawley-on-afghanistan

Crawley R, 2020, Australia’s War in Afghanistan, https://podbay.fm/p/living-history-with-mat-mclachlan/e/1592856000

Crawley R, 2019, Australian artillery at Gallipoli, https://theprinciplesofwar.com/firepower/firepower-12-australian-artillery-at-gallipoli-plenary-session/

Crawley R, 2019, Artillery logistics over the shore, https://theprinciplesofwar.com/firepower/firepower-11-artillery-logistics-over-the-shore-at-gallipoli/

Crawley R, 2018, Tactics and the use of artillery in the Anzac campaign, 1915, https://theprinciplesofwar.com/firepower/firepower-7-tactics-and-use-of-artillery-in-the-anzac-campaign-1915/

Crawley R, 2018, Australia in Afghanistan, https://www.lifeonthelinepodcast.com/podcast/2018/4/6/australia-in-afghanistan-with-dr-rhys-crawley?rq=crawley

Crawley R, 2016, Is it time for another intelligence review?

Crawley R; Cook M, 2016, On the climax at Gallipoli, https://thedeadprussian.libsyn.com/tdp-episode-18-on-the-climax-at-gallipoli

Crawley R, 2015, Changed Forever, WildBear Entertainment

Crawley R, 2015, Lest We Forget What?, ABC2

Other

Crawley R, 2024, Seventy-five years of history behind ASIO director-general’s threat assessment, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/seventy-five-years-of-history-behind-asio-director-generals-threat-assessment/

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