Louise Blake has been mining her family history for interesting stories since she was a teenager. She has a post-graduate diploma in Cultural Heritage Management from the University of Canberra and a masters in Biography and Life Writing from Monash University. She has previously worked for the National Library of Australia, National Museum of Australia, Public Record Office Victoria and the City of Whitehorse. When she's not using her research skills to investigate her family history she is conducting historical research through Blake Hyland Group, a consultancy she co-founded in 2006. Her research on the preservation of the Regent Theatre was published in the 2005 issue of Provenance.

Dr Fred Cahir is a lecturer in the School of Behavioural Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ballarat. Fred has a Masters and Doctorate in Victorian Aboriginal history and was the recepient of the Australian Historical Association's Alan Martin Award in 2008 for his PhD thesis, 'Black Gold: A History of the Role of Aboriginal People on the Goldfields of Victoria, 1850-1870'. He lectures in Indigenous History and Indigenous Health.

Dr Ian D Clark is an Associate Professor in Tourism in the School of Business at the University of Ballarat. He has a PhD in Aboriginal historical geography from Monash University. His areas of interest include Victorian Aboriginal history, cultural heritage management, attractions management, Indigenous tourism, the history of tourism, and Victorian toponyms.

Dr Helen Dehn is originally from Melbourne, where she worked as a property manager. She moved with her husband to Beremboke in 1985 and commenced studies at the University of Ballarat, gaining degrees in librarianship, literature and history. Researching Ballarat and its social history led to an interest in family history, particularly among families who immigrated to Victoria during the1850s. Now in her 60s, Helen holds a voluntary position as research convenor for the Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc., a position allowing her to combine her research interests and provide assistance to other family researchers.

Dr Madonna Grehan holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, having recently completed a history of midwives, nurses, and the health of women in Victoria from the 1840s to the present. Her interest in coronial investigations was sparked when examining primary sources at the Women's Hospital which reflected a coroner's jury's recommendation relating to the practice of midwifery. Nineteenth-century provision of care to the sick and childbearing women continues to be one of her major research interests. Madonna is the Director of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery History Project, a web-based project designed to promote the study of nursing and midwifery history to students and the general public.

Anne Herdman Martin is a great-niece of Robert Herdman and lives in Yorkshire England.

Ken James is a secondary teacher in Melbourne who has an interest in the history of small rural districts in Central Victoria. Recent publications include The Career of Surveyor William Swan Urquhart 1843-1864, A History of Fryerstown State School, A History of Glenluce, A History of the Lyal District, A History of Myrtle Creek, Muddy Water: A History of Burrumbeet, A History of Weatherboard, Schools of the Redesdale District, Chinese Entries in Various Land and Mining Records held by the Public Record Office Victoria, and with Noel Davis, A History of Sutton Grange, and A History of Elphinstone.

Marilyn Kenny is a member of the Essendon Historical Society in Victoria.

Anna Kyi is a historian at the Sovereign Hill Museums Association. Her articles expand on research she undertook for the redevelopment of Sovereign Hill's Chinese Camp.

Dr Liz Rushen completed a PhD in history at Monash University in 1999, and was then appointed executive director of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. Now an independent scholar, she is a member of the Professional Historians' Association and an adjunct research associate in the School of Historical Studies, Monash University. Liz is widely published and is currently working with Dr Perry McIntyre on a project which explores the experiences of pre-Famine Irish immigrants to Australia, particularly in the context of the wider diaspora of this period.

Dr Frances Thiele is a freelance historian currently working in the area of Aboriginal cultural heritage management. In 1995 she was a visiting research scholar at Cambridge University and in 1997 won the EW Benham Prize for a PhD in Early Modern English History from the University of Adelaide. She worked for seven years as Field Historian at the State Library of Victoria developing websites and exhibitions, and collecting material for the Library's Manuscript, Picture and Map Collections. In 2006 she became an honorary research associate with the History Program at La Trobe University and in 2007 was awarded The La Trobe Society's inaugural fellowship for a study of Superintendent La Trobe's management of the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate.

Dr Peter Yule is a Research Fellow of the History Department of the University of Melbourne. He has written widely on Australian economic, social and military history and Western District local history, with his recent books including Ian Potter: Financier, Philanthropist and Patron of the Arts, and Steel, Spies and Spin: the Collins Class Submarine Story. He is currently writing a biography of WL Baillieu.