Dr Kathryn Spurling
Historian · Author · SpeakerStories of courage, injustice and the people history tried to forget.
FEATURED BOOK
HERE’S NO AIR: MURDER AT SEA
She survived the fire. The Navy blamed her.
Four sailors died aboard HMAS Westralia. Kathryn Spurling spent years investigating what happened and why responsibility was allowed to disappear.
Military History
The human stories behind war and service.
Women Who Changed History
Remarkable lives too often left out of the record.
TRUTH & ACCOUNTABILITY
When institutions fail, history matters.
Historian. Veteran. Storyteller.
Kathryn Spurling has spent decades uncovering the people behind Australia’s military history — particularly those whose stories were ignored, dismissed or deliberately buried.
Her work has taken her from Australian archives to NATO Headquarters and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Military History
The human stories behind war and service.
Women Who Changed History
Remarkable lives too often left out of the record.
TRUTH & ACCOUNTABILITY
When institutions fail, history matters.
Historian. Veteran. Storyteller.
Kathryn Spurling has spent decades uncovering the people behind Australia’s military history — particularly those whose stories were ignored, dismissed or deliberately buried.
Her work has taken her from Australian archives to NATO Headquarters and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Selected Books
There’s No Air: Murder at Sea
Fury To Hell
Bureaucracy, Bankers and Bastards
Bring history into the room.
Kathryn speaks about military history, women in service, leadership, institutional accountability and the extraordinary people behind historical events.
Latest Writing
THE STORY OF SQUADRON LEADER KEITH ‘BLUEY’ TRUSCOTT
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MERLE HARE (nee STORRIE)
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RUBY BOYLE-JONES
Ruby Olive Boye, born in Sydney on 29 July in 1891 in Sydney, was the...