Dr Tanya Evans from the Department of Modern History at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and visiting fellow of the Centre will speak about her work on family history and public history in Australia, England, and Canada.

About Dr. Evans
Dr. Tanya Evans is an historian and the author of Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales (New South, 2015) which she wrote in collaboration with family historians. She also wrote Unfortunate Objects: Lone Mothers in Eighteenth-Century London (Palgrave, 2005) and with Pat Thane, Sinners, Scroungers, Saints: Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England (2012). She is a senior lecturer in the Department of Modern History at Macquarie University where she teaches Australian history and public history. She has worked as a historical consultant for the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child/Gingerbread in the UK, The Benevolent Society and for the Australian television series of Who do you think you are? and is a member of the executive of the NSW History Council.