Rebecca Le Get is an independent, early career researcher in the field of environmental history. Her research has primarily focused on the former grounds of tuberculosis hospitals from the late nineteenth to the mid–twentieth century in Victoria, including how the landscapes surrounding these institutions formed part of patient treatment regimens.

Catherine Gay is a Hansen PhD Scholar in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research examines the lives of First Nations and settler girls in nineteenth-century Australia with a focus on the colony of Victoria. In 2021 she was awarded a National Library of Australia Summer Scholarship and the Lloyd Robson Memorial Award through the University of Melbourne. Passionate about museums, material culture and public history, Catherine is a research associate at Museums Victoria.

Charlie Farrugia is the senior collections advisor at Public Record Office Victoria (PROV). He joined PROV in 1985 and is the longest-serving member of the current staff. In 2003, he undertook the original research for Professor EW Russell’s A matter of record: a history of Public Record Office Victoria and has since contributed a number of articles to Provenance. Both of his parents migrated to Australia from Malta.

Author email: charlie.farrugia@prov.vic.gov.au

Joan Tehan is a journalist and former owner and publisher of a Victorian country newspaper. She joined Hazel Edwards' writing course at the Victorian Archives Centre in January 2020 to write the story of her career in the media. 

Law graduate Lina is being mentored by Hazel Edwards as part of the 'Complete Your Book in a Year' course that started at the Victorian Archives Centre. She is writing a family memoir.

Sebastian Gurciullo is a professional archivist, curator, editor and writer. He has worked at the National Archives of Australia, Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) and University of Melbourne Archives. He has been the editor of the Australian Society of Archivists journal Archives and Manuscripts and PROV's journal Provenance. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Archives and Manuscripts, and the assistant editor of Provenance.

Helen Morgan is a professional archivist and historian, and a writer, editor and hands-off philatelist. She spent 20 years working as research data manager and exhibition designer on the Australian Women’s Register, focused on the transfer of knowledge between researchers, memory institutions and the community. Her research interests include problematising sources and working with biographical, archival and bibliographical data in public domains, especially focusing on the forgotten stories of ordinary people.

The authors are members of the collaborative Melbourne History Workshop in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Professor Andrew J May is an urban social historian whose publications include Melbourne street life (1998), Espresso! Melbourne coffee stories (2001) and The encyclopedia of Melbourne (2005) as director and lead editor.

Fred Cahir is Associate Professor in Aboriginal history at Federation University Australia, Ballarat. Fred’s masters and PhD research focused on local Victorian Aboriginal history. His PhD thesis, ‘Black gold: the role of Aboriginal people on the gold fields of Victoria’, was awarded the Australian Historical Association’s 2008 Alan Martin Award and was subsequently published by Aboriginal History Inc. and ANU Press.

Ian D Clark is Adjunct Professor of Tourism at Federation University Australia. He has a PhD in Aboriginal historical geography from Monash University. He has been researching Victorian Aboriginal history since 1982. He has been the manager of the Brambuk Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Halls Gap and a history research fellow at AIATSIS in Canberra. His areas of interest include Aboriginal history, the history of tourism and placenames.

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