Sebastian is the Editor of Provenance, the refereed journal of Public Record Office Victoria, an interdisciplinary journal which publishes articles based on archival research in history, cultural heritage and the interpretation of archival collections. He has been working professionally as an editor since 1995, and joined the Victorian Society of Editors in 2001, and is currently a professional member of the society. Sebastian Gurciullo has been the General Editor of the Australian Society of Archivists' refereed journal,Archives and Manuscripts, since 2009.

Brett Wright is an undergraduate student majoring in history at the University of Melbourne. He is a former journalist who worked in police rounds for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in the 1980s. In 2010 he won the Mary O’Donoghue Prize for Irish Studies, awarded by the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, for an essay on the Fenians and Irish terrorism. Copyright © Brett Wright

Carolyn Woolman is a former secondary school and TAFE history teacher who in 2011 completed a Masters in history at La Trobe University. Her thesis examined the socio‑economic mobility and civic involvement of a Scottish miner on the central goldfields of Victoria, concentrating on the (Maldon) Tarrangower field. She has a strong interest in regional history, and is a volunteer indexer and researcher for the Maldon Museum and Archives Association.

Author email: cmwoolman@gmail.com

Dr Felicity Jensz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics’ at the Westfälische Wilhelms‑Universität Münster, Germany and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she obtained her PhD. Her research focuses upon the relationships between missionaries, Indigenous peoples and governments in the nineteenth‑century British colonial world.

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