Margaret AE Hammer

An experienced historian with a wide range of interests, Margaret Hammer is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society and a former Research Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. Since arriving in Brisbane in 1996, she has spent two years as postdoctoral research fellow at Queensland University of Technology. After completing the centennial history of Diocesan School for Girls in New Zealand in 2003, Margaret is now working on a history of the Calliope Shire in Central Queensland. She is also completing a short history of St Saviour’s Anglican Church in Gladstone, where she now lives.

Skills and services offered:
Research and writing of institutional histories and biographical studies;
Editing of letters and diaries
Cultural and heritage consulting

Professional interests:
Biography
History of government and social policy in 19th and 20th century Britain and Australasia
History of education
History of medicine
History of sport and sporting organisations
Women's history

Qualifications: MA(Hons) Auckland; Ph.D. (Cambridge)

Publications and experience:
Multiple contributor to the New Dictionary of National Biography (OUP), Dictionary of New Zealand biography, and The book of New Zealand women (Wellington, 1991)
Multiple contributor to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2005)
Follow Your star: Diocesan School 1903-2003, Auckland, 2003

Address: Dr MAE Hammer
PO Box 631
Gladstone Qld 4680
Phone: (07) 4972 4014
Mobile: 0400 036 924
E-mail: maehammer@aapt.net.au
Last updated 19 July 2006
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