Australian service personnel repatriated during the First World War.

This fact sheet provides information on the Second World War internee, alien and POW records held in Canberra.

Support offered by the princes and peoples of India in connection with the war.

A black-and-white poster titled 'HAS YOUR KITCHEN GONE TO WAR?' with a message in bold print at the bottom, 'BUY LAMB and help to win the War in your Kitchen'.

Post-war reconstruction in Australia became a much broader phenomenon than simply the re-establishment of servicemen and women. After more than a decade of economic depression and war, there was a widespread belief that radical political, economic, social and cultural changes in Australia and in the wider world were necessary. Cultural nationalism, evident in much of the art and literature of the 1940s, influenced attitudes to reconstruction.

This is a black-and-white photograph showing Nancy Wake, decorated heroine of the French Resistance during the Second World War, holding a large tapestry depicting an illustrated map of Australia.

This is Samuel John Tong Way's First World War attestation paper.

This is a letter written to Prime Minister John Curtin in 1943, regarding plans for Australia following the end of the Second World War.

Extract from a newspaper article regarding post-war settlement of US servicemen.

The National Archives office in Sydney holds a large collection of records of people who were interned in New South Wales during the Second World War.

This is a war propaganda poster describing the responsibilities of Australian citizens.

Completed form spelling out one man's reasons for not enlisting in the First World War.

This document contains the lyrics for anti-war song - 'I Didn't Raise My Son to be a Soldier'.

This black-and-white photograph shows displaced children in a camp after the Second World War.

After the outbreak of the First World War, the federal parliament, following the lead of Britain, passed the War Precautions Act 1914. This law extended the government’s power, allowing it to introduce restrictions on the Australian population for the duration of the war.

On 25 April 1915, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) troops landed on the beaches of Gallipoli in Turkey.

The call to defend Australia, and the British Empire, inspired thousands to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF).

After more than four years of hardship, courage and sacrifice, the fighting on the Western Front came to an end on 11 November 1918.

An exhibition on post-war Australia through the eyes of those that lived through it.

A demonstration against the Vietnam War outside (old) Parliament House in Canberra, during the visit to Australia of United States Vice President Spiro Agnew.