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Contributors
Kristy Bizzaca
As a postgraduate student at Murdoch University, Kristy completed a Master of Arts degree in Public History. Her thesis looked at the development of the heritage movement in Fremantle.
Since 1998, she has worked as an historian and consultant in the Western Australian heritage industry and has been involved in the research of a number of residential, commercial and industrial sites in the Fremantle area. In 2004, she was Chair of the Organising Committee for the Fremantle Heritage Festival and was instrumental in the establishment of the 2004 inaugural Fremantle and East Fremantle Local History Awards.
Kristy is currently the Chair of the Professional Historians Association (WA), a foundation Committee Member of the History Council of Western Australia, and a member of the Fremantle History Society.
Ron Bodycoat AM LFRAIA
Ron is an architect in private practice, now a sole practitioner specializing in conservation and heritage assessment of the built environment.
Ron is a Life Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and has practiced in his profession since registration in 1964. He is a former state and national president of his professional institute and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1992 in recognition of his services to architecture, conservation and heritage.
Until recently he was a councillor and vice president of The National Trust of Australia (WA) and chaired the Trust’s classification Standing Committee. He is conservation architect to the Trust for the East Perth Cemeteries.
The Rt. Hon Sir William Heseltine, GCB, GCVO, AC, QSO.
Sir William was born and brought up in East Fremantle. He had a great grandfather who came to Western Australia as a warder in charge of convicts on the transport Racehorse in 1865. Another great grandfather who arrived in Fremantle on the Lochnagar in 1865 was employed as a schoolteacher for the convicts.
Sir William was educated at Richmond State Primary School, Christ Church Grammar School and the University of Western Australia, from where he graduated with first class honours in history. He was first employed in the Prime Minister’s Department in Canberra, and served as Private Secretary to Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies in the early 50s. In 1960, he was seconded for two years to the Royal Household at Buckingham Palace, as Assistant Press Secretary. Subsequently he joined the Household as a permanent member, and served as Press Secretary and Private Secretary to Her Majesty, retiring and returning to live in WA in 1990. He was President of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society from 1999-2001 and currently is a member of the Senate of Murdoch University.
David Hutchison
David was born in Perth and lives in Fremantle. He has degrees in engineering and arts and has taught physics and been an adult educator. In 1970 he became the first curator of history at the Western Australian Museum and is an inaugural fellow of the National Museum of Australia.
He retired in 1985 to work as a museologist and heritage consultant. Publications include a guide to Fremantle, a book about the Benedictines of New Norcia, articles, essays and short stories (his own and translations from Modern Greek) and botanical illustrations.
Dr Norman Megahey
Norman completed a PhD, A Community Apart: A History of Fremantle Prison, in 2000, at Murdoch University. He had previously, for an honours thesis on the social construction of ‘insanity’ in colonial Western Australia, explored the history of the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, part of which was published in Studies in Western Australian History. Norman has also contributed to a book on the history of intellectual disability in Western Australia, Under Blue Skies, published by Edith Cowan University.
Currently he teaches upper primary children in Treetops Montessori School, Darlington and continues historical research in his spare time.
Dr Nonja Peters
Dr Nonja Peters is Director of the Migration, Ethnicity, Refugees and Citizenship Research Unit at Curtin University of Technology. Her areas of specialization are migration, ethnicity and regional development. She has published widely, delivered papers at overseas conferences, conducted heritage studies, compiled a database on migration and ethnicity research in Western Australia, and organised photographic exhibitions and a successful multicultural festival.
In 1999, she completed her PhD on Greek, Italian, Dutch and Vietnamese enterprise in Western Australia.
Coralie Solomon
Coralie Solomon was born in Fremantle and has lived there for 25 years. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Hist) degree and a Diploma in Education from the University of Western Australia.
Since retiring as a Careers Adviser at the University of Western Australia she has completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Public History at Murdoch University.
The letters of Elias, the grandfather Coralie never knew, have initiated ongoing research into Fremantle, family and personalities that continue to fascinate her.
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