Paul Macgregor is an historian who is the convenor of the Melbourne Chinese Studies Group, and was the curator of Melbourne’s Museum of Chinese Australian History from 1990 to 2005. He is the editor of Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific (1995), and joint editor of both Chinese in Oceania (2002) and After the Rush: regulation, participation and Chinese communities in Australia 1860-1940 (2004).

Fay Woodhouse is a professional historian, writing history and biography for universities, government agencies and individuals. Her most recent history, From vision to reality: the Kindilan story 1972–2012, was published in 2013. She is currently completing the fifty-year history of the Monash Law School. Fay is also the Victorian researcher for The Australian dictionary of biography and is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Kathryn M Steel works at Monash University, Victoria. Her research interests include labour history, the theoretical framing of industrial disputes, and regional industrial relations, particularly regional peak union council agency.

Author email: kay.steel@monash.edu

Natasha Story completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at the University of Melbourne in 2008. She is currently in the final year of a PhD in English Literature while working as a research assistant on the Find & Connect project at the eScholarship Research Centre. As part of the enrichment of the Find & Connect web resource she has undertaken archival research at PROV and at the State Library of Victoria.
Author email: nstory@unimelb.edu.au

Frank Golding grew up in three foster families and three orphanages. After a career in teaching, educational administration and social research, he became a writer. Among his many publications is An orphan’s escape: memories of a lost childhood (Lothian, 2005). He has written extensively on issues around childhood records.

Author email: fgolding@bigpond.net.au

Richard Harrison is an independent historical researcher living in the Melbourne suburb of Blackburn. After a career in the stockbroking industry, in 2004 he accepted a research role with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), where he eventually rose to the position of Senior Manager, Strategic Intelligence. While at ASIC he became increasingly interested in historical research, and in 2014 he resigned to spend more time with his data.

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 and has undertaken duties in most parts of the organisation. In 2003 he undertook the original research for Professor EW Russell’s A matter of record: a history of Public Record Office Victoria.

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

Lee Hooper has been an Access Service Officer at Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) since 2010. She has a diploma in Library and Information Management. Lee has a fascination for creepy old houses and enjoys digging up the dirt on the more mysterious and disturbing records to be found in PROV’s collection.

Author email: sunshine_vii@hotmail.com

Joan Hunt is a PhD candidate at Federation University, Ballarat, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, and a Churchill Fellow. An ex-teacher, she has worked at Public Record Office Victoria, Ballarat Archives Centre. While living in England in 2011–2012 she undertook an Advanced Diploma in Local History through Oxford University, which involved research into community and family reconstitution. Joan has written a history of Ross Creek, and a centenary history of the Scarsdale Old Scholars.