Graeme Davison is Emeritus Sir John Monash Professor of History at Monash University. He has written widely on Australian history, and his publications include The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Time, Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered our Cities, City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia and, as editor, The Oxford Companion to Australian History. His previous…

Pat Jalland, FASSA, FRHistS, is an Emeritus Professor of History at the Australian National University. Her ten books include Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History, 1840-1918 (Oxford University Press, 2002) and Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business (UNSW Press, 2006).

Wilfrid Prest held an ARC Professorial Fellowship from 2002-07 and is now Professor Emeritus in Law and History at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts 1590-1640, Albion Ascendant: English History 1660-1815 and William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century. He is also the editor of The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History.