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Anzac Day as a fashion barometer.
DURING A WEEKEND in rural Hampshire in winter I found myself reflecting, not for the first time, on the meaning of Anzac Day. No other day in our national calendar holds in thrall a people who otherwise scoff at other countries that elevate history into myth.
The question of what Anzac Day tells us about ourselves as Australians was triggered by my decision to attend the morning service after Remembrance Day at St Bartholomew's Anglican Church in Rogate, a village with a parish of perhaps a thousand people.
Founded in the eleventh century, St Bart's is a product of the Norman Conquest, a small stone church much enlarged in the 1870s in the ...
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