Professor Graeme Davison has been a Professor of History at Monash University since 1982 and is now Director of the Monash University London Centre. He has published widely in Australian history where his publications include The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne (1978, revised edition 2004), The Unforgiving Minute (1993), Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered our Cities (2004) and, as co-editor, The Oxford Companion to Australian History (1998). He has been keenly interested in various aspects of public history, including historic buildings, museums, archives and family history.