Meghan Adams
Meghan Adams
Historian
Meghan Adams has worked at the Memorial since 2020, and joined the Military History Section in 2021. She is the coordinator for the Memorial’s Summer Vacation Scholarship Scheme, host of the History Webinar Series and a member of the editorial staff for Wartime Magazine. She researches and writes biographies for the Last Post Ceremony and provides expertise on a range of historical topics, particularly those relating to the First World War, and women’s services during the Second World War.
Meghan graduated from the University of Wollongong as a Dean’s Scholar, where she was awarded a first for her honours thesis, which analysed paternal experiences of bereavement during the First World War. Meghan is currently completing her PhD at the University of New England, which will explore veteran experiences in Australia after the First World War.
Her primary areas of research interest include:
- The Western Front and Sinai Palestine campaigns of the First World War
- Psychological and emotional impacts of war
- Repatriation
- Military medicine
- Life on the home front
- Social impacts of war
Key publications
- "War and Mourning" Wartime 92
- "Keeping them flying" Wartime 98
- "A Record Beyond Price" Wartime 100
- "A Victory Job" Wartime 103
- "Remembering Indian Anzacs in the First AIF"
- "Your First Ship is like your first love; you never forget it"
- "It will be better now we are together: The letters of Joe and Oliver Cumberland"
Book contributions
- “Swinney, Stella Edith (1911-1999)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National Centre of Biography, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2023. Available at: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/swinney-stella-edith-32900
- “Bancroft, Bruce Douglas (1916-2000)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National Centre of Biography, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2023. Available at: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bancroft-bruce-douglas-doug-32898
- “Berry, Margaret Maude (1906-2000)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National Centre of Biography, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2023. Available at: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/berry-margaret-maude-32899