Dr Sarah Mirams is an independent historian who specialises in environmental history, historic archaeology and archival research. Sarah’s early career was in secondary education and she worked as an education officer at Museums Victoria and Heritage Council Victoria. Sarah lectured and tutored at Monash University and Federation University. She is the author of ‘Escaping the Claws of the Machine’: A History of the Darebin Parklands and ‘Coasts of Dream’: A Biography of EJ Brady. Her interest in the Western Gaol came about when working as the site historian for the 2023 archaeological excavation at 600 Collins Street, Melbourne.
Author email: pastandfuture@bigpond.com
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