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. Helen is a member of Professor Andrew May’s Melbourne History Workshop, and is currently working on a biography of a nineteenth-century immigrant family and their disastrous encounter with ‘Marvellous Melbourne’. She is the author of Blue Mauritius: the hunt for the world’s most valuable stamps (Atlantic Books, London, 2006).

Author email: helen@helenmorgan.net