Melanie Oppenheimer holds the Chair of History and is Dean of the School of History and International Relations at Flinders University in South Australia. Her research interests focus on women, war and volunteering in the twentieth century, and she has a special interest in soldier settlement and Red Cross history.
Margaret Anderson researches and writes on women's history, the history and demography of the family and on aspects of public history. She has held senior positions as a public historian in South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria, and is a Fellow of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies.
Mandy Paul is the director of the Migration Museum, a museum of the History Trust of South Australia, and has previously worked in museums around Australia and in the United Kingdom. She has a long history of working in Aboriginal Australia, which began when she was native title historian at the Central Land Council, Alice Springs. She has postgraduate qualifications in history and museum studies, and her research interests include South Australian migration and Indigenous history and historical practice in the context of museums and native title law.
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'Interesting issues which occurred during the years leading up to 1914.' - Nic Klaassen, Flinders Ranges Research
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'This book presents well researched and considered points of view on varied aspects of South Australian life by contributors who are clearly knowledgeable in their field.' - Rob Welsh, ReadPlus
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'This book is not just relevant to South Australians, it demonstrates the varied nature of Australian history and the need to pay attention to the history of each colony/state when thinking of Australian history. It is easy to read and with its discrete chapters and is a good book for the busy reader who needs something that they can pick up and put down.' - Yvonne Perkins, Stumbling Through the Past
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'A broad range of topics, each well-written with meticulous research, provides the history buff and the casual reader with a detailed and fascinating picture of our state on the eve of the Great War.' - Jan Kershaw, Glam Adelaide