THRA | Commitee

Caroline Homer
President
Supper Co-ordinator

Caroline Homer is an archivist and librarian who works for the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office.


Ian Terry
Vice President
Website Co-ordinator Membership Secretary

Ian Terry has been a member of THRA since 1997. He has worked as a freelance historian and is currently a curator at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

Ross Kelly
Treasurer

Ross Kelly is a past Secretary of THRA. He is a (semi-)retired economist, and is also involved with orienteering, bushwalking and car trial navigation.

Andy McKinlay
Secretary

Andy McKinlay has been a member of THRA since 1990, and of the committee since 2005.

Andy is a retired Medical Specialist. His interests include convict history linking Tasmania and Ireland, church clocks and early education.

Heather Felton
Editor, Papers and Proceedings

Heather Felton has been a member of THRA since 1969. An historian by training and inclination, she is currently undertaking a PhD at UTAS. Her latest publication is Ticklebelly tales and other stories from the people of the Hydro (2008).

Stefan Petrow
 Newsletter Co-ordinator

Born in Hobart, Stefan Petrow teaches in the School of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania and has been a member of THRA since 1990. He has served two three-year terms as President.

Michael Roe
Assistant Treasurer
General Meeting Recorder

Michael Roe joined THRA in its earliest years. Since coming to Tasmania in 1960 has served THRA in various executive positions. He was elected a life member in 1990. The most recent of his publications is Albert Ogilvie and Stymie Gaha: World-Wise Tasmanians (2008).


Margaret Glover
Archivist
Publications Co-ordinator

Margaret Glover is a retired archivist and has served as Chairman and Editor of THRA. She was elected a life member in 2003.

Alison Alexander
FAHS representative

Alison Alexander has written 24 books about Tasmania's history, mostly commissioned histories. Her most recent books are Tasmania's Convicts: how felons built a free society (2011), and The ambitions of Jane Franklin (2013).

Caitlin Sutton
Website Editor

Caitlin Sutton is an archivist who works for the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office.


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