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Paula Hamilton is Professor of History and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is a cultural historian who has published widely in oral histories and memory studies, exploring the intersection between personal and public memories. Her current research explores sensory memories of working in the home as a tool for understanding intimate class and gender relations. She is the co-editor of A Cultural History of Sound Memory and the Senses (with Joy Damousi, 2017).

Mary Spongberg is Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research at Southern Cross University, Australia. She is the author of Writing Women’s History Since the Renaissance (2002), principal editor of the Companion to Women’s Historical Writing (2005) and former editor-in-chief of Australian Women’s Studies. Her latest book is Empathetic Histories: English Women Writers and the Nation’s Past 1790–1860 (2018).