By Ms Nicole Louise Townsend

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

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