Locating Suburbia: Memory, Place, Creativity

Paula Hamilton is Professor of History at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has been a practitioner of oral history for 30 years and has worked in a range of projects with community groups, museums, heritage agencies and local councils. She is also the co-director of the Australian Centre for Public History and has published widely in public history, oral history and memory studies. Her most recent publications are Places of the Heart: Memorials in Australia (with Paul Ashton and Rose Searby, 2012), History at the Crossroads: Australians and the Past (with Paul Ashton, 2010) and Oral History and Public Memories (co-edited with Linda Shopes, 2009).

Paul Ashton is Professor of Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is co-editor of the journal Public History Review and Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Public History. A Board Member of the Dictionary of Sydney, his publications included Australia History Now (co-edited with Anna Clark) and History at the Crossroads: Australians and the Past (with Paula Hamilton).