
Project Team
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Professor Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at The University of Western Australia.
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Zoë Laidlaw is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She grew up on Gunditjmara Country in western Victoria and was educated at the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford.
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Elizabeth Anya-Petrivna is a Melbourne-based Senior Curator and Historian at the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). Her work focuses on interiors, domestic life, and nineteenth-century dress and handcraft. She has curated successful exhibitions exploring Australian domestic and dress history. Similarly, she has worked on numerous interpretation projects to present the historic interior as visitor focused and experiential. Elizabeth…
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Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London, Chair of the Centre for the Study of British Slave-ownership and Fellow of the British Academy.
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Keith McClelland now works part-time in the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership.
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Heidi Ing is a social historian with a research interest in intergeneration occupational mobility, networks, and institutions.
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Dr. Nikki Henningham is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, who is working on the Legacies of Slavery project as a researcher. She is Executive Officer of the Australian Women’s Archives Project. As editor of the Australian Women’s Register, Australia’s premier online resource for research in Australian women’s histories, Dr. Henningham has nearly twenty years experience…
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Alan Lester is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex.
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Naomi Preston is a Research Assistant on the Australian Legacies of British Slavery project.
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Historian Caroline Ingram is a historian whose research interests include Australian legal history, women’s history and Western Australian history. She is the author of Women in the Court: The Criminal Trials of Women in Colonial Western Australia (Palgrave McMillan – forthcoming) . Her work has appeared in History Australia, Law & History and Australian Historical…








