Conference Speakers KEYNOTES Associate Professor David Goodman

Goldfields Comparisons: Georgia (USA) 1820s, New Zealand, California and Victorian Goldrushes David teaches US history at the University of . He is the author of the 1994 book Gold Seeking: and California in the 1850s (Allen and Unwin and Stanford University Press) and more recently of Radio’s Civic Ambition: American Broadcasting and Democracy in the 1930s (Oxford University Press).

Leigh Olver

“Blood and Bone”: Discovering Ned Kelly: Using DNA to trace an ancestor resulting in family reconnections Born and raised in the Victorian central goldfields town of Maryborough, Leigh was awarded his Fine Arts Degree (Ballarat CAE),Post Grad Dip Fine Art (RMIT), Dip Ed (BendigoCAE), awarded RMIT Painting Travel Scholarship and travelled extensively throughout Europe/USA. He has since held various exhibitions and worked as a Secondary Art Teacher for over 22 years (various schools). He has an avid interest in Ned Kelly Family History and is a Ned Kelly descendant via the King branch. Involved with various Ned Kelly events, including recently providing the DNA sample which assisted with the identification of Ned Kelly’s remains.

Professor Robert Pascoe

The Footy Tribes of Ballarat Robert Pascoe is a Professor of History and Dean Laureate at Victoria University in Melbourne and the author of the The Winter Game (1995). With Mark Pennings of QUT he is co-authoring a new multi-volume series on football in colonial Victoria, published in Ballan by Connor Court. Robert is a well known historian, author & experienced media commentator. Conference Speakers KEYNOTES Susan Fayad

Heritage at Your Fingertips Susan Fayad is the Coordinator Heritage, City of Ballarat. Susan brings a multidisciplinary skill-set to her position as Coordinator Heritage at the City of Ballarat and has been instrumental in developing the Preserving Ballarat’s Heritage Strategy which has received awards from the Heritage Council of Victoria and Planning Institute of (Victoria).

Lisa Gervasoni

Hidden Perspectives through Maps: New and Traditional Sources to Locate your Ancestors & their Homes Lisa is a strategic town planner, City of Moorabool and an International member of ICOMOS

Conference Speakers (IN ALPHABETICAL SURNAME ORDER) Noelene Allen The Trials, Tragedies & Triumphs: Kelly Women Noelene Allen was born in Sydney and moved to Tamworth in Northern NSW. Following a successful career in retail management and teaching at TAFE, a move to Beechworth in 1999, when the Beechworth Historic & Cultural Precinct was in its infancy, saw Noelene join the band of Precinct Volunteer where her interest in Ellen Kelly and the women of the Kelly family began. She was the Coordinator of the Beechworth Historic & Cultural Precinct until her retirement in 2009.

Meredith Blake Researching Victorian Collections Meredith Blake is currently the Project Manager, Victorian Collections, Museums Australia (Vic Branch) Meredith completed her Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours from the (Anthropology & History) and a Masters in Cultural Heritage from Deakin University. She has worked in the cultural sector for the past 8 years in a number of roles, and in a diverse range of sectors including local and state governments, NGOs and not-for-profits and universities.

Nathaniel Buchanan Insanity on the Goldfields: Victoria’s Lunatic Asylums

Nathaniel Buchanan and Adam Wynne-Jenkins are the operators of the largest privately owned dark tourism business in Australia. Fascinated by total institutions, the duo delve into parts of our history that most others ignore – the incarcerated. Like Cold Case the duo uncover stories and facts that were hidden from the ‘normal’ community that bring evidence to light that are ‘gems’ for the family historian. Both Nathaniel and Adam have conducted historical tours throughout the world and currently lead well researched tours of Aradale (formerly Ararat Lunatic Asylum), Beechworth Asylum, Old Geelong Gaol, Lydiard St. Ballarat, and The Ballarat Old Cemetery. Dr Fred Cahir Black Gold: Aboriginals on the Gold Fields of Victoria Senior Lecturer at University of Ballarat. His book: ”Black Gold: Aboriginals on the Gold Fields Victoria” is a part of the first history that documents the role of Aboriginal people on the Gold Fields of Victoria during 1850 to 1870. It details their extensive involvement as miners, police, traders, entertainers and activists. Fred is the author & winner of the 2008 Alan Martin Award and an expert on Victoria’s Aboriginal history

Dianne Campbell MA Trades & Professions: Lawyers, Licensees & Women Dianne is a legal historian, freelance writer/editor and author. Her interests include the history of lawyers and legal practice on the goldfields of Australasia & the Anglo-Irish in Australia. Di is currently a member of the City of Ballarat’s Heritage Advisory Committee; Central Highlands Historical Assn committee; the committee of Victorian Interpretive Projects Inc., and Treasurer, Invermay Local History Association.

Dr Jan Croggon “So good, so gentle, trustful, fond and true”: Towards a broader understanding of the position of women on the goldfields Jan Croggon is Senior Historian at The Sovereign Hill Museum Association Ballarat. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and Ballarat, a Senior Visiting Fellow of the University of Ballarat and is a member of the Ballarat Australian History Network. She has been closely associated with Museums Australia (Victoria), retiring as Vice president in May 2012.

Dr Anne Doggett Music on the Victorian Goldfields Anne researches and writes about the music of colonial Australia, and has published articles in national and international journals. She has an MA in Japaneseliterature, and a PhD in musicology. As a keen change ringer, she has rung several peals on tower bells and hand held bells, and has co-authored a book about the history of bells in Melbourne, as well as writing a history of the bells in the Ballarat Town Hall. After co-authoring See How They Ring!: Travelling Bellringers on the Australasian Popular Stage she is currently busy working on a history of town criers in Australia.

Marc Eiden ABC Open Senior Producer – ABC Open at Australian Broadcasting Corporation, producer ABC Open Ballarat – has a background in film making, multi media and music production. To learn more visit: https:\\open.abc.net.au\openregions\vic-ballarat-42Tn7FB

Dr Charles Fahey The Cornish on the Victorian Goldfields Charles Fahey teaches history at . He is the co- ordinator of a first year subject – Global Migration Stories – which is taught at Melbourne, Bendigo, Shepparton and Mildura. Students in this course have to write their own global migration story and the course introduces many of them to archives, and family history sources. He has written extensively on the Victorian goldfields and with Alan Mayne published, Gold Tailings: Forgotten Histories of Family and Community on the Central Victorian Goldfields (2010). With Lionel Frost and Keir Reeves he was a guest editor of the Australian Economic History Review – A World in Search of Gold (2010). Charles Fahey’s other publications have been in the history of agriculture and the history of labour markets in Australia. He is currently part of a team researching and writing a history of Australia’s southern mallee landscapes, financed by the Australian Research Council.

Charlie Farrugia Victoria’s Inquest Records Charlie Farrugia is the Senior Collections Advisor at Public Record Office Victoria. He is the longest serving member of the current staff having commenced his career there during 1985. In that time he has worked extensively with the PROV Collection in many contexts in most areas of theOffice. During 2003 he assisted Professor E.W Russell by undertaking research for A Matter of Record. A History of Public Record Office Victoria.

Greg Gerrand SLV Digitisation of Family History Records Greg is the Project coordinator Heritage Collections, State Library of Victoria – Digitisation Projects

Clare Gervasoni A Confusion of Tongues: The Multicultural Goldfields Clare is the curator of the Art & Historical Collections at University of Ballarat, Director Ballarat Heritage Services,genealogist & consulting historian with an interest in pre-1900 non-English speakers in Australia.

Jenny Higgins More than Gold: Treasure from TROVE Jenny Higgins is the Family History Reference Librarian at the National Library of Australia. For over a decade she has assisted family historians researching their origins at the Library and regularly conducts Learning Program sessions on Family History subjects and about uses of TROVE for family history research. She recently developed and delivered a 10 session course of family history reference training for staff in the Library. She has be researching her own family intermittently for over 30 years and assisted at local society and LDS libraries in Canberra for over 10 years. Originally a computer programmer, she undertook contract family history research, prior to joining the Library. In 2011, she was awarded a National Library Australia Day award for her contribution to the family history work in the Library. Monika McIntyre SLV Digitsation of Family History Records Monika is a librarian with the State Library of Victoria, Digitisation Projects

Dr Michele Matthews Bendigo’s “Petitions of the People”: a unique primary source for Family Historians For over three decades Michele has been a local historian. Her first work contract for the former City of Bendigo was to create a Catalogue to the Council’s inwards correspondence 1856-1899. (The petitions are now housed within this collection.) She undertook research for her Honours (1983), Masters and PhD using the records housed at BRAC, which she now spends her working life caring for and learning about. She is currently working on an Oral History project to mark the 125th anniversary of Sandhurst Trustees’ establishment.

Veronica Moriarty A Look at Five Women’s Lives through their Needlework Samplers Veronica is the Information Services Librarian at Central Highlands Regional Library Corporation, Ballarat, author and an authority on women’s needlework samplers & Staffordshire pottery.

Claire Muir ‘Those Whom God Hath Joined Together, Let No Man Put Asunder’: Women and the Quest for Divorce in the Nineteenth Century Claire Muir is the Assistant Curator at the Gold Museum (Sovereign Hill Museums Association), Ballarat, where she has worked for almost seven years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma of Museum Studies from Deakin University. In 2006, she published a book on The Medical History Society of Victoria. Claire is currently a member of the Museum Victoria INSITE Magazine Committee, the Professional Historians Association (Victorian Branch) and the Oral History Association (Victorian Branch). Dr Val Noone The Irish on the Victorian Goldfields Doctor Val Noone is an Australian historian who has written extensively on social history and has a particular interest in the history of the Irish Language in Victoria, Australia, in its social, cultural and linguistic aspects. He is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He completed a degree in Biblical studies, at Corpus Christi College, Melbourne and his doctoral thesis on religious attitudes to war. He spent a number of years as a priest and retains a strong interest in the social history of the Church. He has published many books, articles and reviews, and has been a co-contributor to historical articles in Irish published by the Irish journal Feasta. He is a member of the Irish Language Society of Australia and was the editor of Táin, the magazine of the Irish Australian Network, which ceased publication in 2007. His most notable recent work is Hidden Ireland in Victoria, an overview of the history of the Irish language in south eastern Australia. He was awarded a medal of the Order of Australia in June 2009

Bill Moy The Hidden Chinese: Ballarat After the Gold Rushes Bill Moy is 4th generation Chinese and 80 years old. All his life he has in some way always been connected to the Chinese community in Ballarat. Bill was a foundation member of the Ballarat Chinese Association Community Association and has held various positions on the committee for 25 years. He is also a foundation member and life member of the Chinese Australian Cultural Society Ballarat Inc. and was their President for their first 3 years. He is currently serving as their Vice President.

Sarah Rood Tips on Recording an Oral History Consulting historian “Way Back When” Katherine Sheedy Tips on Recording an Oral History Consulting historian “Way Back When” Sarah Rood and Katherine Sheedy are professional historians and experienced oral history practitioners who, together, make up Way Back When Consulting Historians. Oral history is a common theme through their work, which includes commissioned histories, exhibitions, digital stories and radio work. Way Back When specialises in producing engaging histories that help communities reconnect with their past. Their work includes histories of professional bodies, educational institutions, community and migrant groups, companies and non profit organisations.

Anne Beggs Sunter Ballarat School of Mines & Industries (SMB): The First in Australia Anne is a well known historian, author & heritage activist. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Ballarat. After commencing her career at the National Library in Canberra, Anne has worked as an historian and lecturer at the University of Ballarat. Her academic interests are in Australian social, cultural and political history. She has a national reputation as an expert on the Eureka Stockade and its interpretation in museum contexts. She is also deeply interested in the history of Ballarat and its heritage conservation.

Michael Taffe Citizens and Civic Image: Horticultural Developments on the Goldfields through the lens of the Ballarat Horticultural Society Michael is the Diocesan and Loreto College archivist, historian & author of Ballarat’s Garden Heritage Dr Joseph Toscano Eureka Rebellion Dr. Joe Toscano was educated in where he completed his Bachelor of Medicine/Surgery. Joe has been a medical practitioner for 37 years with a special interest in spinal cord paralysis. He completed his doctorate of medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1987. He has become widely known as an anarchist spokesperson for the Anarchist Media Institute through his broadcasting on community radio, his frequent letters to newspapers such as The Age and the Herald Sun and his initiation of community campaigns. Dr Toscano has presented the long running Anarchist World this week program on 3CR since 1977. A talk back show with Joe Toscano is also a popular 3CR program. A weekly newsletter, the Anarchist Age Weekly Review has been compiled by Joe Toscano since 1991 and distributed around the world. Joe is the Convenor of the “Reclaim the Radical Spirit of Eureka Rebellion Celebrations”. He is also on the Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner Commemoration Committee, the Direct Democracy Not Parliamentary Rule and the Wednesday Action Group.

Dr Dorothy Wickham An Ocean of Tears: Immigration to Australia Dorothy Wickham is a director of Ballarat Heritage Services, consulting historian and archivist. She co-authored The Eureka Encyclopaedia, the overall winner of the Victorian Community History Awards in 2005 and received a Commendation for Best Print/ Publication in 2010 for Women of the Diggings. She has a regular heritage spot on ABC Regional radio and enjoys a variety of speaking engagements. She completed her Master of Philosophy degree at Australian Catholic University in 2003. After being awarded a scholarship from University of Ballarat in 2004, she completed her doctoral studies researching women on the early goldfields in 2008. She has been awarded an Honorary Research Associate of the University of Ballarat. She continues to sit on many committees in an voluntary capacity. These include the Ballaarat Cemetery Advisory Committee, Professional Historians’ Association Editorial Committee, Australian Society of Archivists (SIG) Executive, Victorian Association of Family History Organisations (VAFHO) committee, Victorian Interpretive Projects Inc. (President), and is a founding member of the Australian Women’s Archive Project Committee.

Adam Wynne-Jenkins Insanity on the Goldfields: Victoria’s Lunatic Asylums Adam Wynne-Jenkins and Nathaniel Buchanan are the operators of the largest privately owned dark tourism business in Australia. Fascinated by total institutions, the duo delve into parts of our history that most others ignore – the incarcerated. Like Cold Case the duo uncover stories and facts that were hidden from the ‘normal’ community that bring evidence to light that are ‘gems’ for the family historian. Both Nathaniel and Adam have conducted historical tours throughout the world and currently lead well researched tours of Aradale (formerly Ararat Lunatic Asylum), Beechworth Asylum, Old Geelong Gaol, Lydiard St. Ballarat, and The Ballarat Old Cemetery.

Susie Zada Regional Victoria: A Goldfields Experience Susie is a well known professional genealogist, historian & author who completed an Associate Diploma in Local and Applied History at University of New England (Armidale) in 1996. She is currently the Project Manager at the Genealogical Society of Victoria. She has worked on Heritage Studies in various municipalities in Victoria including: Shire of Mitchell; Shire of Moira; Golden Plains Shire; City of Greater Geelong; and Moorabool Shire, as well as Conservation Management Plans for sites in Melbourne and across country Victoria. Susie has researched and published several books, CD-Roms, indexes and extensive web sites on local history. She is a former President of the City of Richmond & Burnley Historical Society and the Bellarine Historical Society. She has been editor of the Geelong Historical Society journal, and was on the committee of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria History Support Group.