New exhibition at UNSW Canberra celebrates Charles Bean, the historian and the man

By Peter Stanley
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:31pm, first published August 3 2016 - 6:39pm

Enthusiasts of military history know the name Bean – usually in the rather stuffy Victorian form 'C.E.W. Bean'. Many will know that he reported the Great War for newspapers, wrote much of the Australian official history of that war, and created a national war memorial. Few know the man behind this formidable legend.

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