Dr Tanya Evans

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Since gaining her PhD. from the University of London in 2002 Tanya has worked as a social and cultural historian of motherhood, marriage, the family, sexuality, gender and poverty in Britain and Australia from 1750 to the present. She was a Macquarie University Research Fellow from October 2008 until 2011 working on histories of the family in nineteenth-century Australia. She has a long-standing interest in the histories of philanthropy and voluntary organisations and she is working on a history of Australia's oldest charity, The Benevolent Society of New South Wales, focusing on the family histories of former clients of the Benevolent Asylum. She is also working on an exhibition provisionally entitled 'Family Life in Colonial New South Wales' for the Museum of Sydney.

She is also currently working on 'Family Life in Colonial Australia' using a diverse range of sources including printed, oral, pictorial and material to explore the life-stories of a variety of inter-locking key colonial British and Australian families from diverse social groups including British convicts, ex-convicts, the free population (both rich and poor) and indigenous families.