O’Neil Historical & Editorial Services
PO Box 2, Klemzig SA 5087
ABN 49 570 820 821
Telephone (08) 8261 0077

Availability

Part-time

Member status

Professional Historian

Academic qualifications

BA (Hons), MA (Adelaide). Visiting Research Fellow (History), University of Adelaide

Membership of related societies

Oral History Association (SA); Historical Society of SA; Australian Mining History Association; History of Science, Ideas and Technology Group; Australian Society of Authors; Society of Editors (SA).

Professional experience

Three decades of research, writing, editing and publication production experience, including extensive research interstate and overseas.

Skills and services offered

Research; writing; archival advice; compiling bibliographies; proof-reading; editing; indexing; oral history; publication production liaison; records management.

Publications/reports

In Search of Mineral Wealth (1982); The Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Australia (1989) (ed.); The Long Haul: Australian National 1978–1988 (1992) (co-author); Above and Below (1995); In the Marist Tradition (1997) (co-author); Learning for life: St Mary’s Hostel and the CWL Child Care Centre (1999); The Building of Economics at Adelaide, 1901–2001 (2003) (co-author); The Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope: the case for a South Australian site at Murnpeowie Station (2003); ‘For the Love of Books’ (2007) co-author. Contributor to Australian Dictionary of Biography; Living in South Australia (1987); Australians: a historical library (1987); The German Experience of Australia 1833–1938 (1988); The Bannon Decade (1992); Playford’s South Australia (1996) (co-editor); The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History (2001).

Research interests

Aboriginal studies; Agriculture; Australian studies; Biography; Business history; Government administration; Industrial history; Mining history; Organisation histories; Pastoralism; Science; South Australian studies; Sports history.

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