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“UNDERWHELMING, but very exciting,” sounds like a contradiction, but that is the way the Armidale Printing Museum curator Benjamin Thorn described the museum's current exhibition, titled Reporting the Conflict.
The exhibition explores how World War I was reported in Armidale newspapers.
Mr Thorne initially anticipated the exhibition would contain a plethora of news relating to the ‘the war to end all wars’ in Armidale newspapers, but found this was not the case.
“It was not the actual exhibition I was expecting to put together,” Mr Thorn said.
“I approached the exhibition thin I’d have a collection of headlines, but there were hardly any.”
Mr Thorne pointed to the fact that local papers, such as The Armidale Express and The Armidale Chronicle, relied on the wire services which tended to have a European focus.
“The exhibition gives an important perspective on what people in Armidale were getting, and the impact of the war,” he said.
“There was no such thing as a national newspaper back then - people were getting their news from the local papers.”
Reports in the exhibition cover some of the major events in the duration of the war, such as landing at Gallipoli, the Battle of Messines, the Capture of Beersheba and the Armistice.
“These key elements in Australia’s military history were dismissed in a couple of lines,” Mr Thorn said.
“They were wonderfully understated.”
Reporting the Conflict will be on display until the end of January.
The Museum of Printing is open on Thursdays and Fridays or by appointment.
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