By Ms Nicole Louise Townsend

Book Chapters

Townsend N, 2023, 'Introduction', in Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power, Routledge, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003230656-1

Townsend N, 2023, 'Introduction', in Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power, Taylor & Francis, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003230656-1

Yule P; Townsend N, 2023, 'Sir James Rowland and the changing strategic use of air power in Australia, 1942–1979', in Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power, Routledge, pp. 34 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003230656-5

Edited Books

Townsend N; Pandey K; Pendlebury J, (eds.), 2023, Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power: Past, Present, Future, Routledge, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003230656

Journal articles

Townsend N, 2025, '“It Is Vital That We Should Not Keep It to Ourselves”: The Rats of Tobruk Association and the Siege of Tobruk in Australian National Memory', Australian Journal of Politics and History, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.70021

Baker DP; Townsend N, 2024, 'Defiant heroism or wilful disobedience? John ‘Jack’ Hinton and the ethics of disobedience in war', Defence Studies, 24, pp. 349 - 364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2024.2346486

Townsend N, 2022, ''Kangaroos' and 'Froggies': Australian-French relations and the allied invasion of Lebanon and Syria, 1941', The French Australian Review, pp. 61 - 85

Conference Papers

Townsend N, 2024, ''We cannot stress too strongly the importance we attach to holding this area’: the Middle East in the Australian official mind, 1939–41', Adelaide, presented at Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2024, Adelaide, 01 July 2024 - 04 July 2024

Townsend N, 2023, '"There will be no Dunkirk here": The sustainment and relief of Tobruk, 1941', Canberra, presented at In Brown and Green waters: Australian Army Operations in the Littoral, Canberra, 16 November 2023

Townsend N, 2022, 'Fueling the nation: Australia's Economic Imperative in the Mediterranean Theatre', Melbourne, presented at Hard Fought: Australia in the Mediterranean Theatre, 1940–45, Melbourne, Melbourne, 01 April 2022

Conference Presentations

Townsend N, 2025, 'The Australian Army and its Society', presented at Chief of Army History Conference, Canberra, 19 November 2025

Townsend N, 2025, 'The Struggle Against Forgetting: The Rats of Tobruk and the Legacy of the Second World War', presented at Fighting to the Finish: Australia in 1945 – Strategy, Victory and Legacy, Melbourne, 11 October 2025

Townsend N, 2025, 'Research-informed teaching', presented at UNSW Canberra Learning and Teaching Day, UNSW Canberra, 17 September 2025

Townsend N, 2022, 'Fueling the nation: Australia's Economic Imperative in the Mediterranean Theatre', presented at Hard Fought: Australia in the Mediterranean Theatre, 1940–45, Melbourne, 01 April 2022

Townsend N, 2021, ''A thankless job for a thankless people'? French-Australian Relations and the Invasion of Lebanon and Syria, 1941', presented at Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations, 08 April 2021 - 09 April 2021

Townsend N, 2020, ''The Frontline of Australian Defence': Australia and the War in the Mediterranean', presented at Heavy and Continuous Sacrifice: NZ Military Historical Committee, Wellington, 13 February 2020 - 14 February 2020

Townsend N, 2019, 'Local Events, Global Implications: The Second World War Jigsaw Puzzle', presented at King Hall Naval History Conference, Sydney, 08 October 2019

Townsend N, 2019, ''The Frontline of Australian Defence': Australia and the War in the Mediterranean', presented at Centre for the History of Violence Seminar Series, Newcastle, 02 September 2019

Townsend N, 2019, ''A situation ... dangerous beyond words'? The Australian Military Forces in the Depression, 1928–1935', presented at Towards a New Historyof the Interwar Period, Canberra, 01 September 2019

Townsend N, 2019, ''Ready to see it through'? Australan preparations for a second world war', presented at Preparing for Battle, University of Leeds, 21 June 2019

Townsend NL, 2018, 'Identity at war: Italian Australian experiences of otherness during the Second World War', presented at Diaspore Italiane - Italy in Movement, Co.As.It, Melbourne, 04 April 2018 - 08 May 2018

Townsend NL, 2017, ''They fought like demons': The British Eighth Army, the Australian 9th Division, and the disaster at Ruin Ridge, July 1942', presented at El Alamein: 75 Years On The War in the Mediterranean and the Campaign for North Africa 1942, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, 06 September 2017 - 08 September 2017

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

Theses / Dissertations

Townsend N, 2024, More than a Sideshow: Australia, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East during the Second World War

Townsend NL, 2017, Identity at War: Race, identity and belonging in the Italian Australian community during the Second World War, Monash University

Media

Townsend N, 2025, New research shows WWII dominates Australians’ knowledge of military history. But big gaps remain, https://theconversation.com/new-research-shows-wwii-dominates-australians-knowledge-of-military-history-but-big-gaps-remain-262711

Townsend N, 2021, Australians in the Mediterranean, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37WTqauaFzY

Townsend N, 2020, The RAN Protection Of Shipping WWII, https://soundcloud.com/australian-naval-history/s5e02-the-ran-protection-of-shipping-wwii

Townsend N; Cook M, 2019, On Enemy Aliens, https://thedeadprussian.libsyn.com/episode-87-on-enemy-aliens-the-dead-prussian-podcast

Other

Baracchi P (ed.), 2016, Fraternising with the enemy: British-Italian prisoner of war relations, 1939-1947, Co.As.It/Italian Historical Society, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria

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