Barbara Minchinton spent a doctorate’s worth of years delving into Public Record Office Victoria’s archives on land history before working with Melbourne’s urban archaeologists on cesspits and brothels. She has been a volunteer at PROV for over a decade and has yet to work on an uninteresting set of records.
Author email: bminch@netspace.net.au
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