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• Remembrance Day through the lens of Gaza and Ukraine - Article by Douglas Newton - 11 November 2023
• Like Mary’s lamb in Imperial Wars-how history rhymes -  Article by Douglas Newton - 22 November 2022
• The fantasy that haunts our cult of the fallen - Article by Douglas Newton - 24 April 2022
• Reflections for Remembrance Day: the right to question is incontestable - Article by Douglas Newton - 11 November 2021
• Lest we forget: Lessons for AUKUS from the Anglo-German naval race - Article by Douglas Newton - 11 November 2021
• Whitlam, Keating, Anzac, and the drums of wars past - Article by Douglas Newton - 13 May 2021
• How do we show true respect for the Anzacs? - Article by Douglas Newton - 23 April 2021
• Armistice Day: Old Bones, Young Soldiers, Long Wars. - Article by Douglas Newton - 11 November 2020
• Thought for Anzac Day. 'Never such innocence again.' - Article by Douglas Newton - 23 April 2020
• Night Thoughts on the 100th Anniversary of the First Remembrance Day - Article by Douglas Newton - 11 November 2019
• For Remembrance Day: Helping the Australian War Memorial address its future - but to do so in a rather different way - Article by Douglas Newton - 11 November 2019
• ‘Fine phrases … dark thoughts’. Reflections on the Centenary of ‘Peace Day’, 19 July 1 919. - Article by Douglas Newton - 19 July 2019
• Reflections for Anzac Day. Why? How? To what end? - Article by Douglas Newton - 23 April 2019
• "Choosing War, Choosing war and choosing war aims: British and Australian decision-making, 1914-1918" in Peter Stanley, ed., Why Did Australia Go To the Great War? Occasional Paper, Series No. 8. Australian Centre of the Study of Armed Conflict and Society (Canberra, 2018) - Click here for article. and Click here for the ACSACS conference "Why did Australia go to the Great War?" of May 2018 full conference proceedings. 
• Discussion on projected new book, “Saving OUR Private Ryan” - by Douglas Newton at the Independent Scholars Association of Australia meeting, National Library Canberra, Australia - 14 November 2018
• Address for Remembrance Sunday at Crows Nest Uniting Church - by Douglas Newton - 11 November 2018 
• Address to Bundeena Rural Fire Brigade fundraising lunch on "Saving Our Private Ryan" - by Douglas Newton - 10 November 2018
• For Armistice Day: Lest we forget the realities of the Armistice - Article by Douglas Newton - 9 November 2018
• Merchants of death should not be funding Australian War Memorial - Opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald - 7 November 2018
• What are the real lessons of the First World War? - Article by Douglas Newton - 6 November 2018
• Real Lesson from Invictus Games - Opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald - 29 October 2018
• Beersheba – The Scramble for the Ottoman Empire – Article by Douglas Newton – 2 Nov 2017
• The Centenary of the Third Battle of Ypres – Article by Douglas Newton – 3 August 2017
• The forgotten and ignored German peace initiative of 1916 – Article by Douglas Newton – 20 December 2016
• Address for Remembrance Day at North Sydney Girls High - Transcript of Address - 8 November 2016
• The Slide to World War I. Shades of 1914 today? – Article by Douglas Newton – 28 October 2016
• A 100 Per Cent Ally – ‘Utterly Dependable’ – conscience washing – Article by Douglas Newton – 8 July 2016
• The Centenary of the Great War – and Anzac – Article by Douglas Newton – 7 May 2016
• Lost opportunities for a negotiated peace during the Great War: 1917 to 1918. Part 2 – Article by Douglas  Newton – 4 May 2016
• Lost opportunities for a negotiated peace during the Great War: 1914 to 1916. Part 1  – Article by Douglas  Newton – 3 May 2016
• What we fought for: from Bullecourt to the Armistice, 1917-1918 – Article by Douglas  Newton – 2 May 2016
• What we fought for: from Gallipoli to Fromelles, 1914-1916 – Article by Douglas Newton – 29 Apr 2016
• The Hard Questions We Should Face on Anzac Day 2016 – Article by Douglas Newton – 20 Apr 2016
• The Father Charles Jerger Case and the Domestic Political Context of the Great War in Australia – Article by Douglas Newton
• ‘We have sprung at a bound’: Australia’s leap into the Great War, July–August 1914 – La Trobe Journal – September 2015 – and Click here for article on John Menadue’s blog Pearls and Irritations.
• Hard Truths about Britain’s Entry into World War I – History News Network – 19 Dec 2014
• A Centenary of Infinite Regret – Word Power Books – 24 Aug 2014
• Choosing War – Peace News – June 2014
• Australia’s New Navy Quickly Became Theirs Again – ABC The Drum – October 17, 2013

Other Publications by Douglas Newton - Chapters In Edited Books:

• Douglas Newton, “Other people’s war: the Great War in a world context”, in David Stephens and Alison Broinowski, eds., The Honest History Book (Sydney: New South Publishing, 2017), pp. 16-31
• Douglas Newton, “‘A Real Heritage of the English People’: British Liberalism and Continental Despotism”, in Robin Archer, Joy Damousi, Murray Goot and Sean Scalmer, ends., The Conscription Conflict and the Great War(Melbourne: Monash, 2016), pp. 14-36. Click here for a discussion of this book with Robin Archer on ABC Saturday Extra.
• Douglas Newton, “How Did Australia Enter the Great War in 1914?”, in Alison Broinowski, ed., How Does Australia Go To War? A Call for Accountability and Change (Melbourne: Australians for War Powers Reform, 2015), pp. 16-18.
• Douglas Newton, ‘At Daggers Drawn: The International Women’s Movement and the Struggle to Avert War, July-August 1914’, in Philip Deery and Julie Kimber, ads, Fighting Against War: Peace Activism in the Twentieth Century (Melbourne: Leftbank Press, 2015), pp. 10-31. Click here for full article.
• ‘Disillusionment in the “Academic Garrison”: The Political Intelligence Department of British Foreign Office and the German Revolution of 1918-1919’, in Andrew Bonnell, Greg Munro and Martin Travers, eds., Power, Conscience and Opposition: Essays in German History in Honour of John A. Moses (Peter Lang Publishers, New York, 1996), pp. 45-73.
• ‘World War I’ (3,000 words) in William H. McNeill, ed., The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, Volume V, 0-9743091-0-9 (Berkshire Publishing: Great Barrington MA, 2005), pp. 2079-2084.
• ‘The Treaty of Versailles’ (2,000 words), in William H. McNeill, ed., The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, Volume V, 0-9743091-0-9 (Berkshire Publishing: Great Barrington MA, 2005), pp.1901-1903.
• ‘“This black horror of inconceivability”: Dissenters in British Foreign Policy and Britain’s Rush to War, July-August 1914’, in Bernard Mees and Samuel P. Koehne, eds., Terror, War, Tradition: Studies in European History (Australian Humanities Press, Unley, South Australia, 2007), pp. 17-40.
• Articles in scholarly journals
• Douglas Newton, ‘”We have sprung at a bound”: Australia’s Leap Into the Great War, July-August 1914’, in John Lack, Judith Smart, and John Arnold, eds., The La Trobe Journal, NO. 96 (September 2015), Special Issue: Victoria and the Great War (Melbourne: State Library of Victoria, 2015), pp. 6-27.
• ‘At the Birth of Anzac: Labor, Andrew Fisher and Australia’s Offer of an Expeditionary Force to Britain in 1914’, in Frank Bongiorno, Raelene Frances and Bruce Scates, eds., Labour and the Great War: The Australian Working Class and the Making of Anzac, special edition of Labour History, 106 (May 2014), pp. 19-41.
• ‘The Lansdowne “Peace Letter” of 1917 and the Prospect of Peace by Negotiation with Germany’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48, 1 (2002), pp. 16-39.
• ‘The British Power Elite and the German Revolution of 1918-1919’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 37, No. 3 (1991), pp. 446-65.
• ‘Days of Hope in Germany: from the Peace Resolution to the Armistice, 1917-1918’, Teaching History, Vol. 20, Part 4 (January, 1987), pp. 3-19.
• ‘The Promotion of Militarism and the Origins of the First World War: Some Evidence from Britain’, Teaching History, Vol. 15, Part 4 (January, 1982), pp. 27-56.
• Refereed Papers In Conference Proceedings
• ‘“A Lasting Peace”, The British Radical Liberals and the Campaign for a Negotiated Peace with Germany, 1914-1918’, in Franz Oswald and Maureen Perkins, eds., Europe – Divided or United? (Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European Historians, 1999) (Canberra: Southern Highlands Publishers, 2000), pp. 211-230
• ‘Should the British have fought on to Berlin in November 1918 for German Democracy’s sake?’, in J. Perkins and J. Tampke, eds., Europe: Retrospects and Prospects (Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European Historians, 1995) (Sydney: Southern Highlands Publishing, 1996), pp. 222-232.