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Mayes, Robyn, and Graham Seal. “Women and Anzac Day in Western Australia: Newspaper Representation in the 1960s.” In The Future of Sociology, edited by S. Lockie, D. Bissell, A. Greig, M. Hynes, D. Marsh, L. Saha, J. Sikora, and D. Woodman. Refereed proceedings of the Australian Sociological Association 2009 Annual Conference, The Australian National University, Canberra, December 1-4, 2009.

Mayes, Robyn. “Origins of the Anzac Dawn Ceremony: Spontaneity and Nationhood.” The Journal of Australian Studies 33, no. 1 (2009): 51-65. (Research for this paper supported by a Curtin University Women in Research Seeding Grant.)

Mayes, Robyn. “Localising National Identity: Albany’s ANZACS.” Journal of Australian Studies, no. 79 (2003): 15-27.

Oliver, Bobbie. Peacemongers: Conscientious Objectors to Military Service in Australia, 1911 to 1945. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1997.

Oliver, Bobbie. War and Peace in Western Australia: the Social and Political Impact of the Great War, 1914 to1926. Nedlands, WA: The University of Western Australia Press, 1995. [Short-listed Non-Fiction Section, WA Premier’s Book Awards, 1995].

Oliver, Bobbie. “Women in the Australian Defence Forces,” “Kathleen Best.” In Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women, edited by Reina Pennington, 34-37, 54-55. Westport, USA: Greenwood Press, 2003.

Oliver, Bobbie. “Conscientious Objectors,” “The Peace Research Centre.” In The Australian Centenary History of Defence. Vol. 6, Australian Defence: Sources and Statistics, edited by Joan Beaumont, 387, 579-80. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001. 

Oliver, Bobbie. “Conscription.” In The Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, 145-46. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Oliver, Bobbie. “The ‘Diggers’ Association’: A Turning Point in the History of the Western Australian Returned Services League.” Journal of the Australian War Memorial, no. 23 (October 1993): 29-35.

Oliver, Bobbie. “‘All-British’ or ‘Anti-German’? A Portrait of a Western Australian Pressure Group during World War I.” In “Aspects of Ethnicity in Western Australia,” edited by Richard Bosworth and Margot Melia. Special issue, Studies in Western Australian History, no. 12 (April 1991): 28-39.

Oliver, Bobbie. 2000. ‘“A Wanton Deed of Blood and Rapine”: Opposition to Australian Participation in the Boer War", in The Boer War: Army, Nation and Empire edited by P. Dennis and J. Grey, 191-199. (The 1999 Chief of Army/Australian War Memorial History Conference, Canberra, 4-6 November 1999, Canberra: Army Military History Unit, 2000).

Oliver, Bobbie. 1993. "The 'Diggers’ Association': A turning point in the history of the Western Australian Returned Services League." Journal of the Australian War Memorial,  23 (October 1993): 29-35.

Seal, Graham. “‘... and in the morning...’: Adapting and Adopting the Dawn Service.” Journal of Australian Studies, 2011

Seal, Graham.“Folklore, History and Myth at an Anzac Memorial.”Australian Folklore 25, (November 2010). 

Seal, Graham. "The Culture of the Trench: Soldier Publications of the Great War," Proceedings of the International Conference of Arts and Humanities, Hawaii, January 2010. 

Seal, Graham. "Digger," in Australian Symbols edited by Richard White and Melissa Harper. University of NSW Press/National Museum of Australia, 2010.

Seal, Graham. “Remembering and Forgetting ANZAC Cottage: Interpreting the Community Significance of Australian War Memorials since World War 1.” In People, Place and Power: Global and Regional Perspectives, edited by Dawn Bennett, Jaya Earnest, and Miyumi Tanji. Perth, WA: Black Swan Press, 2009.

Mayes, Robyn, and Graham Seal. “Women and Anzac Day in Western Australia: Newspaper Representation in the 1960s.” In The Future of Sociology, edited by S. Lockie, D. Bissell, A. Greig, M. Hynes, D. Marsh, L. Saha, J. Sikora, and D. Woodman. Refereed proceedings of the Australian Sociological Association 2009 Annual Conference, The Australian National University, Canberra, December 1-4, 2009.

Seal, Graham. "Australian Submarines at Peace: The J-Boats." Journal of Australian Naval History 6,2 (Sept 2009): 5-17.

Seal, Graham. "Finding the Lost Submarine: The Mystery of AE1." Journal of Australian Naval History, 5, 1 (March 2008).

Seal, Graham. “ANZAC: The Sacred in the Secular.” Journal of Australian Studies, no. 91 (2007): 135-44.

Seal, Graham. “The Echo of an Anzac’s Cooee: The Creation, Dissemination and Impact of Digger Culture.” Australian Studies (UK) 20, no. 1-2 (2007).

Seal, Graham. Echoes of Anzac: The Voice of Australians at War. Melbourne: Lothian Books, 2005.

Seal, Graham. “Anzac: The Sacred in the Secular.” In Sacred Australia: Post-Secular Considerations, edited by Makarand Paranjape. Thornbury, Vic.: Clouds of Magellan, 2009.

Seal, Graham. Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2004.

Seal, Graham. “Anzac Day: An Australian Folk Custom.” Journal of Indian Folkloristics (2003-2004).

Seal, Graham. "Anzac Day: A Customary Complex." Australian Folklore 18 (Nov 2003).

Seal, Graham. “Unravelling Digger Yarn/Spinning in World War One.” Journal of Australian Studies 53 (1997): 146-56.

Seal, Graham. “Written in the Trenches: Trench Newspapers of the Great War.” Journal of the Australian War Memorial (April 1990).

Stephens, John. “The Cultural Biography of a Western Australian War Memorial”. The International Journal of Heritage Studies (in press until 2014)

Stephens, John. “Changing Landscapes of War Commemoration in Western Australia.” In People, Place and Power: Australia and the Asia Pacific, edited by Dawn Bennett, Jaya Earnest and Miyume Tanji. Perth, WA: Black Swan Press, 2009.

Stephens, John. The Importance and Care of Western Australian War Memorials - Remembering the Wars. Perth: Black Swan Press, 2008.

Stephens, John. “Community Meaning and Heritage of Western Australian War Memorials.” In Past Matters: Heritage and Planning History - Case Studies from the Pacific Rim, edited by Caroline Miller and Michael Roche, 104-24. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 

Stephens, John. “‘In Memory of’: The war memory boom in Western Australia.” Proceedings, Urban Transformations: booms, busts and other catastrophes, 11th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference, University of Western Australia, State Library of Western Australia, February 5-8, 2012.

Stephens, John. “Recent Directions in War Memorial Design”, International Journal of the Humanities, Vol 9. Issue 6. (2012): 141-152.

Stephens, John. “Anzac Memories: Albany as a Pilgrim Landscape.” Proceedings of the 28th Annual International SAHANZ Conference, Brisbane 2011.

Stephens, John. "Remembrance and Commemoration through Honour Avenues and Groves in Western Australia." Landscape Research 34, no. 1 (2009): 125-41.

Stephens, John. “The Ghosts of Menin Gate: Art Architecture and Commemoration.” Journal of Contemporary History 44, no. 1 (2009): 7-26.

Stephens, John. The Importance and Care of Western Australian War Memorials - Remembering the Wars. Perth: Black Swan Press, 2008. 

Stephens, John. “Well and Truly Planted: Honour Avenues in Western Australia.” In Conference Proceedings of Seachange \ New and Renewed Urban Landscapes, 9th Australasian Urban History /Planning History Conference. Caloundra. University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, February 5-7, 2008.

Stephens, John. “Memory, Commemoration and the Meaning of a Suburban War Memorial.” Journal of Material Culture 12, no. 3 (2007): 241-61.

Stephens, John. “‘A Shrine Where Earthly Grief May Comfort Seek’: The Western Australian State War Memorial.” In Conference Proceedings of When the Soldiers ReturConference, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, November 28-30, 2007.

Stephens, John. "Community Meaning and Heritage of Western Australian War Memorials," in Past Matters: Heritage and Planning History - Case Studies from the Pacific Rim, edited by  C. Miller and M. Roche. Newcastle UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

Stephens, John. “Commemoration, Meaning, and Heritage of Western Australian War Memorials.” In Proceedings of the Eighth Australasian Urban/Planning History Conference, Wellington, New Zealand 9-11 February 2006, edited by Caroline Miller and Michael Roche. Palmerston North, N.Z., School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University. 

Stephens, John. "The Gate of Eternal Memories," in Contested Terrains, edited by  T. McMinn,  J. Stephens, and S. Basson. Society of Architectural Historians , Australia and New Zealand XXIII Annual Conference Perth Sept 29 Oct 2 2006.

Stephens, John. “The Architecture of Discipline: The Perth Drill Hall.” Fabrications: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand 13, no 1 (August 2003).

Conference papers
Stephens, John. "Anzac Landscapes: Albany and Gallipoli Pilgrimage", Third International Gallipoli Symposium 20-21 April, 2012 Istanbul-Çanakkale, TURKEY, Gallipoli Campaign: History, Legend and Memory.

Summers, Sue.  Australian Tunnellers of the Western Front. Report and research database for Australian Folklore Research Unit, Curtin University, 2008.

R Mayes and G Seal ‘Women and Anzac Day in Western Australia: newspaper representation in the 1960s’ The Australian Sociology Conference, Sydney, December 1-4 2009.

B Oliver, 2002 ‘Women Conscripts? The 1942 debate and some outcomes’, Australian War Memorial 2002 History Conference: Remembering 1942. 31 May-1 June, Canberra.

B Oliver 1999. ‘“A Wanton Deed of Blood and Rapine”: Opposition to Australian Participation in the Boer War’, delivered at The Boer War. Army, Nation and Empire. The 1999 Chief of Army/Australian War Memorial History Conference, Canberra, 4-6 November 1999.

G Seal ‘The Culture of the Trench: Soldier Newspapers of the Great War’, 2010 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 2010.

J Stephens 'A shrine where earthly grief may comfort seek'. The Western Australian State War Memorial. 'When the Soldiers Return' Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane 28-30 November 2007.

G Seal Invited paper ‘Observing Anzac’, When the Soldiers Return Conference University of Queensland, Brisbane 28-30 November 2007.

G Seal Keynote address ‘Anzac in Australia and New Zealand’ for the 2nd New Zealand Folklore Symposium, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, Dec 2, 2007.

G Seal ‘The Echo of an Anzac’s Cooee’: The Creation, Dissemination and Impact of Digger Culture.’ British Australian Studies Association (BASA) ‘Projecting Australia Conference’, University of Wales, Cardiff September 2004.

Yiannakis, John. “Diggers and Greeks.”  Islands of Memory Revisited, 32, Oral History Association of Australia, Hobart (2010): 110-111. 

Yiannakis, John. “ Kalgoorlie Alchemy: Patriotism, Xenophobia and the 1916 Race Riots.” Early Days, 2, 7, Royal Western Australian Historical Society, Perth (1996):199-211.