The Versailles Conference saw the awakening on the world stage of Australian nationhood after the sacrifices of war.

Carl Bridge is Head of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King's College, London. He has both a PhD in History and a Diploma in Education from the Flinders University of South Australia and is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His current research falls into four areas: the history of Australian diplomacy and defence; war and society in 20th-century Australia; Australian historiography; and the history of the British world. He is co-editor of London Papers in Australian Studies and Reviews in Australian Studies. His publications include (with Bernard Attard) editing Between Empire and Nation: Australian External Relations from Federation to the Second World War (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000) and contributing 'Anzac Day' to the Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (OUP, forthcoming).