Associate Professor Tanya Evans is Director of the Centre for Applied History at Macquarie University in Sydney, where she teaches public history and modern history. Tanya leads the Australia and Aotearoa NZ Public History Network and was recently elected president of the International Federation for Public History. She is a member of PHA (NSW & ACT).

Tanya’s books include the prize-winning Fractured Families: Life On The Margins in Colonial New South Wales, as well as Sinners, Scroungers, Saints: Unmarried Motherhood in Modern England and ‘Unfortunate Objects’: Lone Mothers in Eighteenth-Century London. Tanya has published many scholarly articles and book chapters on family history. Her latest publication is Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship: A New Social History (Bloomsbury 2022). Tanya curates exhibitions and works as a consultant for television production companies making historical documentaries. She is currently undertaking collaborative work with family and local historians on a social history and archaeological project in NSW.

The Wilson History Oration has been established in memory of Dr Bill Wilson OAM (1942-2021).

The oration, is free, and can be booked here:  https://phavic.wildapricot.org/event-4818153