Lest We Forget: But What are we Remembering?

Lest We Forget – but what are we Remembering. Learning and unlearning about the Great War with guest speaker, Mark Cryle

Dr Mark Cryle is a published historian, presenter, teacher and resident of Dutton Park. In 2015 he completed a PhD entitled Making ‘the One Day of the Year’: a Genealogy of Anzac Day to 1918. In 2016 he was awarded a Q Anzac 100 Fellowship from the State Library of Queensland.  He was formerly the Manager of the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland. Mark has researched, written and presented on aspects of both Australian and British history and literature. He recently co-wrote, with Erica McWilliam, Somerville House: Then and Now (2024).  In another life, Mark is a musician and songwriter.