Roslyn Russell | Eleanor Palmer | Debbie Milsom | Dr Michael Jones| Stella Barber | Harvey Broadbent
Bob Nield | Freya Purnell | Lindy Shultz | Dr Linda Young
Roslyn Russell
Photograph by Andrew Sikorski
Roslyn Russell holds an MA Honours degree in History from the University of Sydney, and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Science in Cultural Heritage Management from the University of Canberra. Formerly manager of Australian Heritage Projects, then a partner in Marsden Russell Historians, she is now proprietor of Roslyn Russell Museum Services.
Roslyn edits two magazines for the museum sector, Museums Australia Magazine and Friends of the National Museum of Australia magazine. She has wide-ranging experience in exhibition development, from small scale interpretive signage to temporary and permanent exhibitions, and is currently developing displays for Hawkesbury Regional Museum and Lady Denman Heritage Complex, Huskisson, both in NSW. Her work has appeared in venues ranging from national and state institutions and federal government departments to local and regional museums.
Roslyn is the author and co-author of a number of books and other publications on Australia’s history and heritage. She has, over a number of years, helped to develop tools for assessing cultural significance in the areas of movable and documentary heritage, and has been involved in the assessment process as well. She is currently compiling the correspondence of Professor Manning Clark for publication in 2007, and finalising her doctorate in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Defence Force Academy.
More information about Roslyn's work and experience can be found here.
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Eleanor Palmer
Eleanor Palmer has a degree in communication and social history.
She has worked as the personal assistant to the Director of the Imperial War Museum, London, and combines volunteering for Manning Clark House with administrative and research assistance for Roslyn Russell Museum Services.
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Debbie Milsom
in the RRMS office
Debbie Milsom is Office Manager for Roslyn Russell Museum Services.
After a sixteen-year career in the Commonwealth Bank, she became Membership Manager for Museums Australia in April 2000, a position she retains. Debbie is a keen photographer, and is responsible for maintaining the RRMS website and databases.
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Dr Michael Jones (left)
at Boorowa Museum, NSW
Dr Michael Jones taught public policy and management at the University of Canberra for thirty years.
He has a history and economics degree from the University of Queensland, and a PhD from the ANU in Urban Research. He has published seventeen books: on social policy (including four editions of The Australian Welfare State, published by Allen & Unwin); local government; and eight local histories, including the Gold Coast, North Sydney, Whittlesea, Frankston and the Dandenongs. Michael now carries out research and is Financial Manager for Roslyn Russell Museum Services.
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Stella Barber
Photograph by
Mark Wilson
Stella migrated from England in 1975. She attended Hallam High School, was dux of the school and went on to study history at the University of Melbourne where she achieved an honours degree in history.
She then began her work as an archivist with the Australian Archives while at the same time working part time with Melbourne's Living Museum of the West. She joined GJ Coles and Coy in 1985 as the firm’s first archivist and was research assistant to Patsy Adam-Smith working on a Coles company history which was never finished. Coles acquired Myer late in 1985 and Stella became manager of the largest retail archive in Australia, which included records relating to Australian businesses dating to the 1840s. While working with Coles Myer she completed a degree in archives administration.During this time Stella began an association with the Myer family and worked on the family archives and library. She had also written an official history for GJ Coles which is in the process of being resurrected. With a change in direction, the company closed its archives and Stella began her freelance career shortly after having her first child, James. Her work has included completing Sidney Myer, a Life, a Legacy (published May 2005) and working with companies from all over Australia.
Article on Sidney Myer, a Life, a Legacy
Her second son Kieren was born while she worked on the Myer book, during which time she also completed her MA with a thesis on the uses of archives to write history.
Stella is now a freelance writer with a range of commissions including a history of the Goulburn Valley Grammar School, a biographical study with the founder of Ready Mixed Concrete, a significance study of the image collection of the Ballarat Gold Museum and Ballarat Historical Society and with the MSO on its centenary project. She is also a member of the Stonnington History Committee and does voluntary and casual work with Renown Kindergarten and Wesley College. Stella is a member of the Collingwood Football club and a passionate supporter who is ever hopeful of another grand final in her lifetime.
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Harvey Broadbent
at Gallipoli
Harvey Broadbent is an audiovisual producer and writer, who has a BA Honours degree from the University of Manchester and a Diploma in Education (NSW).
For many years he was a producer and executive producer with the ABC. He worked on Four Corners, Quantum, Holiday, Education Now, Books and Writing and Background Briefing. He made the award-winning Gallipoli, The Fatal Shore, The Boys Who Came Home (also published as a book) and The 75th Anniversary Gallipoli Pilgrimage (1990). He has also made radio sound compositions for ABC-FM radio, including Listening to Istanbul, Listening to Manchester, Encountering Damascus and World Street.
Harvey produced the audio component of the Canberra Museum and Gallery’s exhibition on the January 2003 bushfires, The Day the Sky Turned Black, and audiovisual presentations for the Hawkesbury Regional Museum and audiovisual presentations for the Lady Denman Heritage Complex, Huskisson, NSW. Harvey was Associate Producer on Revealing Gallipoli, a two-part documentary for ABC TV, TVNZ, TRT (Turkey), and RTE (Ireland), to mark the 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign. His book, Gallipoli, The Fatal Shore, was published by Penguin Viking/The Helicon Press in August 2005. As ‘Foreign Correspondent’ Harvey contributes regular articles on overseas museums to the FRiENDS [of the National Museum of Australia] magazine. He is currently Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University.
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Bob Nield
at work
Bob Nield comes to the team with over thirty years experience in secondary education in New South Wales and the ACT.
Originally a History teacher with an Honours degree in Modern History from Sydney University, Bob pursued studies in Prehistory, Anthropology and Sociology at ANU to keep up to date with secondary school curriculum developments and helped launch an innovative World Archaeology/Prehistory course at Hawker College in the early days of the secondary college system in the ACT.
After thirteen years at the school principal level he jumped at the chance to take ‘early retirement’ at fifty-five so that he could return to his original passion for history and heritage. He completed a Graduate Diploma in Cultural Heritage Management from the University of Canberra in mid-2004 (studying under Linda Young and Brian Egloff) and since has been plying his trade in the Cultural Heritage arena, specialising in heritage interpretation and research.
Highlights so far have included a stint as a research assistant for Melbourne historian Jim Davidson (who is writing a biography of Sir Keith Hancock) and preliminary research for the reconfiguring of the Lady Denman Museum at Huskisson. He keeps his hand in at the heritage interpretation ‘coal face’ by delivering school programs as a casual employee with the Education Section of the Australian War Memorial.
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Freya Purnell
at a round-table for Money Management magazine
Freya Purnell is a Sydney-based writer and editor.
She has worked in print and online publishing for over six years for publications covering the diverse fields of architecture and building, interior design, and financial services, as well as for corporate clients including Woolworths, Drummoyne Council, and the State Library of New South Wales.
Freya holds a Bachelor of Media from Macquarie University and a Bachelor of Communications (Honours) from the University of Technology, Sydney, both majoring in print media. In addition to freelance writing, this year Freya has edited a new magazine for baby boomers, zack magazine, which was launched in July and covers topics as varied as social issues and current affairs to travel, health, technology and culture. Freya writes on regional museums for Museums Australia Magazine and FRiENDS.::top
Lindy Shultz
in Paris, 2005
Lindy Shultz assists with copyright for exhibitions; research assistance and writing for biographical projects and commissioned histories and desktop publishing.
She has a Bachelor of Information Management, with a print journalism major, an Associate Diploma of Arts in Library Studies, and has around ten years' experience in special and government libraries.
Lindy has around seven years' experience in all aspects of publication production – editing, design, indexing, copyright, print broking – producing annual reports, journals, magazines, newsletters, monographs, art and event catalogues, print advertisements, even legislation!
She is a part-time editor, designer and librarian with the Australian Dance Council and was a publications manager and research assistant at The Australian National University. Lindy is a committee member of the Canberra Society of Editors.
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Dr Linda Young Photograph by
David Young
Dr Linda Young is a regular team member with Roslyn Russell Museum Services, specialising in interpretation for historic sites and museums, and in significance assessments.
A historian by discipline, Linda teaches Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University in Melbourne. Linda holds MA degrees from the Universities of Sydney and Pennsylvania, and a PhD from Flinders University. She has worked in state museums and historic houses in NSW, WA, SA and the ACT, developing deep expertise in nineteenth-century personal and domestic material culture.
She writes regularly for museum and heritage journals and her book Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century was published by Palgrave in 2003. Linda is Reviews Editor of Museums Australia Magazine and a member of its Editorial Committee. She is a member of the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Committee and its Assessment Sub-Committee, which assesses nominations to the Memory of the World Australian Register of significant documentary heritage.
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Maria is a marketing and communications specialist based in Melbourne. She is an advocate of clear, meaningful, jargon-free language for the criticism and review of contemporary art and culture, particularly for hybrid works that are at the intersection of art and technology.
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