Flora's Box: Empty Spaces, Memory and Migration

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Flora Vine (right) on the beach in Poole with her daughter Jean and grandchildren in the early 1950s

Sara Wills is an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, and a Research Associate with Museum Victoria.

The paper takes as its point of departure a wooden box made for the author's great-grandmother, and now in the possession of her mother, and uses it to reflect on the narratives produced in research on post-Second World War British migration to Australia.