Tertiary Qualifications

BA Dip Ed, Macquarie University, 1981
BA Hons, Macquarie University, 1983
PhD, School of History, Macquarie University, 2000

Professional and other Associations

Professional Historians Association of NSW Inc, 1985-
Member of Executive, 1985-86; 1990-91; 1992-5
Convenor of Workshops, 1985-87
President, 1994-97
Honorary Research Associate, School of History, Philosophy and Politics, Macquarie University, 1990-96
Councillor, Australian Council of Professional Historians Associations, 1994-6
Treasurer, History Council of NSW, 1995-6; Councillor, 1995-8
Board Member, Centre for Community History, 1995-7
Member, National Council on Public History (USA), 1997-; Board Member 2002-5
Board Member of the Dictionary of Sydney to 2006-17; and Chair 2016-2017
Adjunct Professor, Dept of Modern History, Politics & IR, Macquarie University, 2016

Memberships

Sydney History Group, 1980-95; President 1989-1995
History Council of New South Wales, 1995-; Treasurer 1995-6

External Committees and Panels

1992- Public History Review Editorial Committee
1992-5 Councillor, Customer Council, State Archives of New South Wales
1993 Member, Judging Panel, NSW Ministry for the Arts annual History Fellowship
1994-7 Member, History Advisory Committee, Heritage Council, NSW Department of Urban Affairs and Planning
1995 Judge, Douglas Stewart Non-Fiction Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards
1996-7 Old Government House Conservation Management Group, Historic Houses Trust, 1996-7
1998-2000 Alternate Member, History Advisory Committee, Heritage Council, NSW Department of Urban Affairs and Planning
1999-2003 Member, National Council on Public History, Professional Working Group (USA)
1999-2004 Member, Judging Panel, NSW Ministry for the Arts annual History Fellowship
1997-2000 Member, Cultural Heritage Research Advisory Committee, National Parks and Wildlife Service (to date)
2001 Member, Centennial Park Conservation Plan Management Committee
2006 Member, Judging Panel, NSW Premier's History Awards; Chair Community and Regional History Panel
2011-13 Member, History Advisory Committee, NSW Heritage Council/Office
2013- Member, NSW Premier's History Teacher's Scholarship Panel
2010 Member, Judging Panel, NSW Premier's History Awards; Chair Community and Regional History Panel
2016 Member, Judging Panel, NSW Premier's History Awards; Chair Media History Panel
2017 Member, Judging Panel, NSW Premier's History Awards; Chair, Community and Regional History Panel
2017-2019 Member, Heritage Committee, Heritage Council of NSW
2017- Editorial Committee, Chinese Journal of Public History, Zhejiang University Press
2017-Member, Heritage Council of NSW Heritage Advisory Committee 
Panel Judge, NSW Premier's History Awards 2017
Member, NSW Premier's and History Teachers' Association NSW History Teacher's Scholarship 2017
Panel Judge, NSW Premier's History Awards 2018
Member, NSW Premier's and History Teachers' Association NSW History Teacher's Scholarship 2018

Consultancies

Historian, Shipwreck Coast, Great Ocean Road, thematic heritage interpretation, SHP, Melbourne (2017)
Historian, Box Hill thematic heritage interpretation, SHP Melbourne (2017)

Academic Positions/Roles

1990 Part-time Lecturer in MA and Post-graduate Diploma, Applied History Program and Australian History, University of Technology, Sydney
1991 Part-time Lecturer Australian History, University of Technology, Sydney
1992 Part-time Lecturer in Australian History, University of Technology, Sydney
1993 Part-time Lecturer in Applied History Program, University of Technology, Sydney
1995 Associate Lecturer in Public History (Lecturer from June 1996), Department of Social, Political and Historical Studies (renamed Department of Writing, Social and Cultural Studies in 1997), University of Technology, Sydney (tenured from February 1998); Senior Lecturer from 1999 (Department of Writing, Journalism and Social Inquiry)
1995 Member, Faculty Library Advisory Group, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS
1996-7 Member and Chair, Academic Discipline Committee, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS
1996-2000 Founding member, Alternate Director and Management Committee Member, The Shopfront, University of Technology, Sydney
1999- Director, Australian Centre for Public History, UTS
2000- Director, UTS Shopfront (Community Research and Advocacy Program)
2002-3 Research Degrees Coordiantor, HSS, UTS
2002-6 Research Director, HSS, UTS
2004 Associate Professor
2002-6 Faculty Research Committee (Chair 2002-6)
2002-6 Faculty Board; Dean's Advisory Committee; Faculty Advisory Board; Academic Management Group; University Graduate School Board; Equity Completion Grant Committee (2003-); University Research Student Matters Committee; University Research and Research Training Committee (2005-6)
2006 Area Director (Acting), Public Communication Program (half-year)
2006-8 UTS History Advisory Group
2008-15 UTSePress ejournal Editors Committee
2008 Member, HSS Research Committee
2008-9 Alternate Head, Creative Practice Group (Acting 3 months 2009)
2008-15 Founding Management Committee Member, Centre for Creative Practice and Cultural Economy; Co-Director CPC; Director 2010
2009-13 Member, UTS Internal Research Grants Selection Committee
2009 Member, FASS Faculty Board (elected)
2010 Member, FASS Dean's Advisory Committee
2010 Member, FASS Research Committee
2010 Professor
2013-15 Member, FASS Research Committee
2013-15 Member, UTS Research Committee
2015- Adjunct Professor Australian Centre for Public History, UTS

Professional Work Experience

1981 Research and writing, secondary school education texts
1983 Historical research for Max Kelly (historian), Premier's Department study of Macquarie Street
1984 Historian, one year contract, Department of Agriculture: included article writing and planning/ co-ordination of Oral History Research Project Bust, Boom and Bust, compiled by F.E. Stanton (research assistant)
1985 Editor, NSW Wheat and Barley Research Committee Annual Report
1985 Consulting historian, Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority: included documentation studies; oral history project with long-time residents; history research and writing; public relations
1985 Historical report on Opera House forecourt for Conybeare, Morrisson and Partners (architects)
1985 Historical survey for Environmental Impact Statement on Circular Quay West in conjunction with Kate Blackmore for Conybeare, Morrisson and Partners
1985 Historian and editor, Manly Heritage Study for Department of Environment and Planning and Manly Municipal Council
1985 History consultant, Readers Digest, Sydney
1986 Outline history and statement of cultural significance of St Patrick's College, Manly, for Schwager, Brooks and Partners (architects)
1986 Editor, NSW Wheat and Barley Research Committee Annual Report
1986 Historical study of Sydney School of Arts, Pitt Street, Sydney, in conjunction with Kate Blackmore for Howard Tanner and Associates (architects)
1986 History of Centennial Park in conjunction with Kate Blackmore for Centennial Park Trust (see published books)
1986 Survey photographic historical study of Millers Point, Sydney, in conjunction with Max Kelly and Kate Blackmore for Howard Tanner and Associates and NSW Department of Housing
1986 Detailed photographic historical study of Millers Point, Sydney, in conjunction with Kate Blackmore for Howard Tanner and Associates and NSW Department of Housing
1986 Historical study of Wentworth Gaol, Wentworth, NSW, in conjunction with Kate Blackmore for Elizabeth Vines (architect)
1986 History of Camden Park Estate for Camden Park Conservation Plan in conjunction with Kate Blackmore for Howard Tanner and Associates and the NSW Department of Environment and Planning
1986 Co-author with Carol Liston and Terry Kass, Submission to the Heritage Council NSW History Committee on History and Heritage Studies
1987 History report and analysis of Bella Vista Farm, Kellyville, NSW, for Howard Tanner and Associates
1987 Architectural and historical study of former Methodist Chapel, Newington College, with Kate Blackmore, for Allen, Jack and Cottier (architects)
1987 Editor, NSW Wheat and Barley Research Committee Annual Report
1987 History report, Conservation Plan CBD 1 (proposed high-rise building), Kate Blackmore project Director, for Stephenson and Turner (architects)
1987 History Research Project, Food and Nutrition in Australian History, for Sydney Market Authority
1987-88 Historian, Drummoyne Heritage Study, for Permual and Murphy (architects) and the Drummoyne Municipal Council
1988 Pictorial research and captioning for a travelling exhibition on Australian domestic architecture for the Commonwealth Department of Community Services and Health
1988 Historical component on Manly Wharf EIS, Manly, for Planning Workshop
1988 Part-time teacher, Australian History and architectural Drafting Work Studies, Granville College of TAFE
1988 Historical study of Rockwall House, Potts Point, Sydney, for Howard Tanner and Associates
1988 History research project on colonial factory 29a King Street with Kate Blackmore for Condux PL
1988 History research project, Cowra POW Camp with Kate Blackmore, for the NSW Heritage Council
1988 History research project, Sussex Street block (Corn Exchange building) with Kate Blackmore for Howard Tanner and Associates
1988 Outline history of the Big Scrub (northern NSW) from settlement until the present with Kate Blackmore for National Parks and Wildlife Service
1988-89 Official historian, NSW Bicentennial Council (see published books)
1989 History research project re conservation study of Goldsbrough Mort wool store, Ultimo, Sydney, with Ailsa McPherson, for Anglin and Associates (architects and urban planners)
1989 History research project, Surry Hills Police Training Centre, Sydney, for Howard Tanner and Associates
1989 Photographic research and captions for 1 O'Connell Street historical display for Northbourne Developments
1989 Photographic and other research on Homebush Bay for Homebush Bay Redevelopment Authority
1989 History research project, Haymarket Chambers (Corner George and Hay Streets, Sydney), with Ailsa McPherson for Howard Tanner and Associates and the Council of the City of Sydney
1989 Historical report on Tempe House with Kate Blackmore for Clive Lucas, Stapleton and Partners PL
1989 Editor, NSW Wheat and Barley Research Committee Annual Report
1989 Field Officer, Royal Australian Historical Society
1989 Historian, Waverley Heritage Study, with Ailsa McPherson, for Perumal and Murphy and the Waverley Council
1989 Historian, Pyrmont Ultimo Heritage Study, for Anglin and Associates and the Department of Planning
1989 History report on 25 Wharf Road Birchgrove for Stannard Brothers Holdings PL (late nineteenth century marine villa)
1990 Historian, Eagle Farm Convict Agricultural Establishment and Female Factory (Brisbane) Heritage Study assisted by Sue Rosen for Commonwealth Department of Administrative Services
1990 Senior Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, re Centenary History of the Law School
1990 History report, Pulpit Point, Hunter's Hill, Sydney, for Comrealty PL re Land and Environment Court hearing
1990 Editor, NSW Wheat and Barley Research Committee Annual Report
1990 Historian (photographic and general documentary research), Sydney Town Hall restoration for Howard Tanner and Associates
1990 Historian, NSW Sports Club (10-14 Hunter Street, Sydney) Conservation Plan, with Howard Tanner and Associates
1990-91 Commissioned to write a history of the House With No Steps, Belrose, Sydney, for the Wheelchair and Disabled Association (1990-91: included overseas research) (see published books)
1990 History Report, Market 1 and 2 (Paddy's Markets), Haymarket, Sydney, with Judy Wing for Howard Tanner and Associates
1990-91 Historian with Sue Rosen (principal), Shire of Wollondilly Heritage Study and Shire of Wingercarribee Heritage Study.
1990 History Report in heritage advice on Shelbourne Hotel and Pyrmont Bridge for Howard Tanner and Associates
1990 History Report in Bennelong Point Heritage Report (Howard Tanner and Associates) for Colonial Mutual
1990-91 Historian with Ailsa McPherson, thematic history, Bellingen Heritage Study, for Perumal Murphy PL
1991 Preparation of a handbook for undertaking oral history for the North Sydney Municipal Council (see published books)
1991 Consultant Historian for Stanton Library, North Sydney Council, Focus on Creativity Community Arts Project: production of history booklets and oral history project management
1991 Historian, Warringah Heritage Study with Judy Wing for Hughes, Trueman and Ludlow and the Warringah Municipal Council
1991-92 Commissioned by Council of the City of Sydney to write a history of planning in Sydney; included compilation and publication of oral history transcripts (see published books and edited collections)
1991 Coordinator, history report, Nutcote Conservation Plan, for Howard Tanner and Associates and the Nutcote Trust
1992- Founding Co-editor, Public History Review
1992-1994 Co-contractor (with Judy Wing) and editor, A History of the Patent Profession in Australia, commissioned by the Australian Institute of Patent Attorneys (forthcoming 1994)
1992-93 Compiler, production coordinator and contributor, East Circular Quay Documentation Study, Council of the City of Sydney
1993-95 Project officer (share basis, part-time), Community History Program, School of History, University of NSW; projects included outreach work in local history; development of teacher in-service training programs; occasional tutoring and lecturing; part of teaching staff on and MA course, Communities in History; some commercial commissions
1994 Co-editor (with Louella McCarthy), Open Museum Research Report, Sydney City Council
1995-6 Senior Consulting Historian, Sydney Town Hall Conservation Plan, State Projects, NSW Department of Public Works
1996 Supervising Historian, history report, State Office Block Conservation Plan, Lend Lease
1997 Supervising Historian, History Report Royal Edward Hotel re-development, by Jane Kelso
1997-8 Senior Consulting Historian, Blackwattle Bay Coal Depot, Conservation Plan, Permual Murphy Vu for Office of Maritime Administration
1997- Senior Historian, Heritage Assessment in Land and Environment Court Action, 25 Baldwin Street, Gordon, for Ku-ring-gai Council
2000-1 Historian, Centennial Park Federation Valley Heritage Project
1998- (with Paula Hamilton and Roslyn Burge) Oral history project of Sydney northern Beaches in the 1930s, Shroch (regional councils: Manly, Mosman, Pittwater and Warringah)
1999 (with Patricia Hale) History of Agriculture for the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Australia
2000 (with Jennifer Cornwall) Sustaining a Nation: historical publication for Australian Bureau of Agricultural research and Economics; Focus Publishing Sydney
2001 (with Jennifer Cornwall) Rooty Hill thematic history, in Rooty Hill Conservation Plan (Knox and Associates)
2001-2 (with Patricia Hale) Raising a Nation: a history of the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture 1901-2001, for the department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Australia (2002)
2002-4 (with Jennifer Cornwall) Times of Hope: A History of the Australian Heritage Commission (unpublished)
2004-6 (with Jennifer Cornwall and Annette Salt) Sutherland Shire: A History (UNSW Press, 2006)
2012-13 (with Armanda Scorrano) revision and update of Centennial Park history for 125th anniversary of the Park
2013- Member, Airservices Australia project team, Connecting the Nation (Project Leader Dr Tracy Ireland)
2014 Paul Ashton, 'Peer Review of the Preliminary National Heritage List Assessment: "Sydney: Convict Colony to Civic Nation"', prepared for the Federal Department of Environment, June 2014.
2015 Paul Ashton, 'Historical Significance and Historical Association Report, Sirius Apartment Building, 36-50 Cumberland Street, The Rocks', prepared for the Heritage Division, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, October 2015.
2016 Paul Ashton and Jaya Keaney, 'Historical Significance and Historical Association Report, St Mary and St Mina's Coptic Church, Sydenham', for the Coptic Church Heritage Committee

Special Distinctions and Awards

Centennial Park: A History short listed for the Manning Clark Bicentennial Local History Award
Entry in Who's Who in Australia Writing, D.W. Thorpe, Melbourne 1991
Winner The Australian Educational Publishing Awards, 2001, single title secondary text, for Australian History and Citizenship

Grants

Chief Investigator (with Heather Goodall and Paula Hamilton), Australians and the Past Pilot Project, small ARC, 1996-7, $19,000
Chief Investigator and Manager (with Paula Hamilton and Heather Goodall), Australian and the Past National Survey, large ARC and SPIRT grants, 1999-2002, $220,000  
(with Paula Hamilton and CoAsIt) Sydney's Italian Fruit Shops, NSW Heritage Office grant, 2000, $5000 
(with Paula Hamilton) Community History Writing Workshops, NSW Ministry for the Arts, Cultural Grants, 2002, $5000
Chief Investigator (with Paula Hamilton) Sydney's Italian Fruit Shops, ATN Grant, 2002, $19,000
Co-Investigator (with James Goodman), Industry Link Seeding Research Grant, 2002, $15,000
(with Paula Hamilton) ShroC Northern Beaches Oral History Project on the 1930s, $65,000 Australian Libraries Association grant scheme, 2004
Chief Investigator (with Paula Hamilton), ARC Discovery, 2004, Places of the Heart: Memorials in post 1960 Australia, $190,000
Chief Investigator (with Stephen Garton and Shirley Fitzgerald), Dictionary of Sydney project, ARC Linkage, 2006-10, $920,000
Chief Investigator (with Lisa Andersen and Darrall Thompson), UTS Teaching and Learning Grant, 2007, $7,900
Chief Investigator (with Peter McNeill and Paula Hamilton), Surry Hills Project, UTS Challenge Grant, 2008-10, $82,000
Chief Investigator (with Ross Gibson, Chris Gibson and Jim Walmsley), Cultural Asset Mapping in Regional and Rural Australia, ARC Linkage, 2008-12, $586,000 from ARC with total cash and in-kind value $2.2 million.

Publications

BOOKS

Paul Ashton et al, The NSW Health Care Interpreter Service: The First Forty Years, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, 2017

Paul Ashton with Kate Blackmore, On The Land: A photographic history of farming in Australia, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1987 (second edition 1988)

Paul Ashton and Kate Blackmore, Centennial Park: A History, NSW University Press, Sydney, 1988

Paul Ashton, Australian Farming Through 200 Years, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1988

Paul Ashton, Waving the Waratah: Bicentenary New South Wales, (aspects of the New South Wales Bicentennial Council and its activities), NSW Bicentennial Council, Sydney, 1990

Paul Ashton, Laying the Foundations: A History of the House With No Steps, The Wheelchair and Disabled Association of Australia, Sydney, 1991

Paul Ashton, On The Record: A Practical Guide to Oral History, North Sydney Municipal Council, North Sydney, 1991 (reprinted in revised edition 1994)

Paul Ashton, The Accidental City: Planning Sydney Since 1788, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1993 (reprinted in paperback 1995)

Louella McCarthy, Paul Ashton and Hamish Graham, Culture and Heritage: Oral History, State of the Environment Technical Paper Series, Natural and Cultural Heritage, Central Queensland University Press for Environment Australia (Commonwealth Department of the Environment), Toowoomba, 1998

Paul Ashton and Duncan Waterson, Sydney Takes Shape: A History in Maps, Hema, Brisbane, 2000

Jennifer Cornwall and Paul Ashton, Sustaining a Nation: A History of Agriculture in Australia Since Federation, Focus Publications, Canberra, 2000

Patricia Hale and Paul Ashton, Sustaining a Nation: A History of the commonwealth Departments of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 1901-2001, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Australia, Canberra, 2002

Paul Ashton, Jennifer Cornwall and Annette Salt, Sutherland Shire: A History, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006

Paul Ashton and Hilda Kean (eds), People and Their Pasts: Public History Today, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009

Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, History at the Crossroads: Australians and the Past, in press, Halstead Press, Sydney, 2010

Paul Ashton, Paula Hamilton and Rose Searby, Places of the Heart: Memorials in Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2012

Anna Clark and Paul Ashton (eds), Australian History Now, NewSouth, Sydney, 2013

Paul Ashton, Kate Blackmore and Armanda Scorrano, 'The People's Park': Centennial Park, a History, Halstead Press, Sydney, 2013

Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson (eds), Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of Women and Children, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2014

Paul Ashton, Chris Gibson and Chris Gibson (eds), By-Roads and Hidden Treasures: Mapping Cultural Assets in Regional Australia, University of WA Press, Crawley, 2015

Lisa Andersen, Paul Ashton and Lisa Colley (eds), Creative business in Australia: Learnings from the Creative Industries Innovation Centre, 2009 to 2015, UTSePress, Sydney, 2015

David Aylward and Paul Ashton, The Ten Apostles: Australia's Iconic Winemakers, forthcoming, Halstead Press, Sydney, 2016

Paul Ashton, Anna Clark and Robert Crawford, Once Upon a Time: Australian Writers on Using the Past, Australian Scholarly Press, North Melbourne, 2016.

TEXT BOOKS
Mark Anderson and Paul Ashton, Focus on Australian History, Macmillan Education Australia (MEA), Melbourne, 1993 (reprinted 1993, 1994, 1995)

Mark Anderson and Paul Ashton, Australia's Heritage in Profile, MEA, Melbourne, 1995

Mark Anderson and Paul Ashton, Australian History and Citizenship, MEA, Melbourne, 2000 (reprinted 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)

Mark Anderson and Paul Ashton, Australia in the Twentieth Century: Working Historically, MEA, Melbourne, 2004 (reprinted 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)

Paul Ashton and Mark Anderson, The Modern World and Australia, Macmillan Education Australia, 2012

Paul Ashton and Mark Anderson, Making the Modern World, Macmillan Education Australia, 2012

Paul Ashton and Mark Anderson, History Year 9 for NSW: Making the Modern World, Macmillan Education Australia, 2013

Paul Ashton and Mark Anderson, History Year 9 for NSW: The Modern World and Australia, Macmillan Education Australia, 2013

Bianca Crawford, Paul Ashton and Mark Anderson, Teacher Edition: History Year 9 for NSW: Making the Modern World, Macmillan Education Australia, 2013

Luke Cashman, Paul Ashton and Mark Anderson, Teacher Edition: History 10: The Modern World and Australia, Macmillan Education Australia, 2013

ARTICLES (REFEREED JOURNALS)
Paul Ashton, 'Reconstruction of New South Wales' Wheat-Growing Industry, 1930-84', Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science, vol 50, no 3, 1984, pp142-160 (eighteen thousand words)

Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, 'Streetwise: Public History in New South Wales', Public History Review, vols 5-6, 1997, pp1-8

Paul Ashton, 'Repatriation Homes'?: Matraville Garden Village for Disabled Soldiers and War Widows', War and Other Catastrophes, special issue of Journal of Australian Studies, no 60, 1999, pp73-83

Paul Ashton, '"Our splendid Isolation": reactions to modernism in Sydney's northern suburbs', UTS Review, vol 6, no 1, 2000, pp 41-50

Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, 'Blood Money? Race and Nation in Australian Public History', Radical History Review, vol 76, Winter 2000, pp188-207

Paul Ashton, 'Duncan Waterson: Public Historian', in From the Frontier: Essays in honour of D.B. Waterson, special issue of Australian Cultural History, vol x, 2001, pp 17-24

Paula Hamilton and Paul Ashton, 'Out of Place: On not belonging', Public History Review, vol 10, 2000, pp 37-42

Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, 'At Home with the Past: Background and Initial findings from the National Survey', Australian Cultural History, no 22, 2003, pp5-30

Paul Ashton and Jennifer Cornwall, 'Corralling Conflict: The Politics of Australian Heritage Legislation Since the 1970s', in Alexander Trapeznik (ed), Conflicted Heritage, special issue of Public History Review, vol 13, 2006, pp53-65

Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, 'Facing Facts?: History wars in Australian high schools', Journal of Australian Studies, vol 91, 2007, pp45-57

Paul Ashton and Robert Freestone, 'Town Planning', Sydney Journal, vol 1, no 2, 2008, pp11-23

Paul Ashton, 'Suburban Sydney', Sydney Journal, vol 1, no 3, December 2008, pp36-50

Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, 'Places of the Heart: Memorials, Public History and the State in Australia Since 1960', Public History Review, vol 15, 2008, pp1-29.

Paul Ashton, '"the birthplace of Australian multiculturalism"?: retrospective commemoration, participatory memoralisation and official heritage', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol 15, no 6, 2009, pp381-398.

Paul Ashton, '"the spirit of local patriotism": Progress and populism in Sydney's northern suburbs in the 1920s', Journal of Australian Studies, vol 34, no 2, 2010, pp163-177.

Paul Ashton, '"This villa life": Town planning, suburbs and the "New Social Order" in early twentieth-century Sydney', Planning Perspectives, vol 25, no 4, October 2010, pp457-483.

Paul Ashton, 'Going Public', Public History Review, vol 17, 2010, pp1-15.

Paul Ashton, Kresno Brahmantyo and Jaya Keaney, 'Renewing the New Order? Public History in Indonesia', Public History Review, vol 19, 2012, pp83-106.

Paul Ashton and Lisa Murray, '"like walking a tightrope": Shirley Fitzgerald, Public Historian', Sydney Journal, vol 4, no 1, 2013, pp154-167.

ARTICLES (OTHER)
Paul Ashton, 'A Corporate World', Journal of the NSW Teacher's Federation, vol 64, no 5, March, 1983, p16

Paul Ashton, 'Place', Parallax: The Rocks, no 1, Arcadia Press, Sydney, 1987

Paul Ashton, 'Shaping the Land', Parallax: The Show, no 2, Arcadia Press, Sydney, 1988

Paul Ashton, 'The Accidental City: Writing the history of planning in Sydney', Planning History, vol 14, no 3, 1992, pp30-33

Paul Ashton and Shirley Fitzgerald, 'Public History in Australia', Public History News, (National Council on Public History in cooperation with the Department of History, Indiana University at Indianapolis), vol 14, no 3, Spring ,1994, pp1; 8

Paul Ashton, 'Enjoying the Mandatory Syllabus?', Locality, vol 7, no 2, Spring 1995, pp13-17

Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, 'The State of History Journals in Australia: Public History Review', Australian Historical Association Bulletin, No 84, June, 1997, pp19-22

Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, 'Streetwise: public history in New South Wales', Australian Historical Association Bulletin, no 85, December, 1997, pp5-11

Paul Ashton, Paula Hamilton, Heather Goodall and Beth Gilligan, 'Australians and the Past', Public History Review, vol 5-6, 1997, pp211-2

Paul Ashton and Christopher Keating, 'Commissioned History', invited contribution to Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre (eds), Oxford Companion to Australian History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998

Paul Ashton, Heather Goodall, Paula Hamilton, Jane Connors and Louella McCarthy, 'Australians and the Past at the University of Technology, Sydney', Public History Review, vol 8, 2000, pp168-73

Paul Ashton, 'Constructed Landscapes: Centennial Park', in Locality, Autumn 2001, pp. 10-13

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Paul Ashton, Kresno Brahmantyo and Jaya Keaney, 'In the service of the state: Monuments and memorials in Indonesia', in James Gardner and Paula Hamilton (eds), The Oxford handbook of Public History, Oxford University Press, New York, 2017, pp505-519

Paul Ashton and Meg Foster, 'Public Histories', in Sasha Handley, Rohan McWilliam and Lucy Noakes (eds), New Directions in History, Bloomsbury, London, 2017, pp151-170

Paul Ashton, 'Inventing Manly, 1853-1890', in Max Kelly (ed), Sydney: City of Suburbs, NSW University Press, Sydney, 1987, pp149-171

Paul Ashton, 'The Handicapped: outside community margins', in Patrick O'Farrell and Louella McCarthy (eds), Community in Australia, Community History Program, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1994, pp37-40

Paul Ashton, 'Changing approaches to the developmentally-disabled', in Shirley Fitzgerald and Garry Wotherspoon (eds), Minorities: Cultural Diversity in Sydney, State Library of NSW Press, Sydney, 1995, pp140-156

Paul Ashton, 'The Past in the Present: Public history and the City of Sydney', in Tim Murray (ed), Exploring the Modern City: Recent Approaches to Urban History and Archaeology, HHT, Sydney 2004, pp1-24

Paul Ashton, '"An Architectural Monstrosity"?: The Cahill Expressway and Town Planning', in Martin Grotty and David Andrew Roberts (eds), The Great Mistakes of Australian History, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006, pp93-107

Hilda Kean and Paul Ashton, 'Introduction: People and their pasts and public history today', in Paul Ashton and Hilda Kean (eds), People and Their Pasts: Public History Today, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, pp1-20

Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, 'Connecting with History: Australians and their pasts', in Paul Ashton and Hilda Kean (eds), People and Their Pasts: Public History Today, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, pp23-41

Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, '"Unfinished Business": Public History in a Post-Colonial Nation', in Daniel Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer (eds), Contested Histories in Public Space, Duke University Press, Durham, 2009, pp71-98

Paul Ashton, 'A Sense of the Past: Preserving Old Sydney', in Caroline Butler-Bowden (ed), Painting the Rocks, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney 2010

Paul Ashton and Anna Clark, 'Introduction: Rethinking Australian History', in Anna Clark and Paul Ashton (eds), Australian History Now, NewSouth, Sydney, 2013, pp13-23

Paul Ashton, 'Public History', in Anna Clark and Paul Ashton (eds), Australian History Now, NewSouth, Sydney, 2013, pp167-180

Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson, 'Sites of Conscience: Remembering disappearance, execution, imprisonment, murder, slavery and torture', in Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson (eds), Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of Women and Children, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2014

Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson, 'Introduction', in Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson (eds), Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of Women and Children, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2014

Paul Ashton and Sue Boaden, 'Mainstreaming Culture: Integrating the Cultural Dimension into Local Government', in Paul Ashton, Chris Gibson and Ross Gibson (eds), By-ways and Hidden Treasures: Mapping Cultural Assets in Regional Australia, UWA Press, Crawley, 2015

Paul Ashton, Kresno Brahmantyo and Jaya Keaney, 'In the service of the state: Monuments and memorials in Indonesia', in James Gardner and Paula Hamilton (eds), Public History Handbook, Oxford University Press, New York, forthcoming 2016

Paul Ashton and Meg Foster, 'Public Histories', in Lucy Noakes et al (eds), New Directions in History, Bloomsbury, London, forthcoming 2016

CHAPTERS IN TEXT BOOKS
Paul Ashton, 'Using Maps: The European Discoverers of Australia', in D. Stewart (ed), Investigating Australian History, Heinemann Education Australia, Richmond, 1985, pp.28-55 (secondary text)

Paul Ashton, 'Rats: Public Health in Sydney 1850-1900', in D. Stewart (ed), Case Studies in Australian History, Heinemann Education Australia, Richmond, 1986, pp94-109 (secondary text)

Paul Ashton, 'Rabbits', in ibid, pp145-167

Paul Ashton, 'The Wave Hill Walkout', in ibid, pp192-204

EDITOR (JOURNALS)
Member (founding), editorial collective, Public History Review, and co-editor: vol 1, 1992 (pp.200) (published by the Professional Historians Association of NSW Inc); vol 2, 1993 (1994); vol 3, 1994 (1995); vol 4, 1995 (1996); vols 5/6 (1998); vol 7 1998; vols 8, 9, 10, and 11 (Halstead Press); vols 12- UTSePress

Paul Ashton and Briget Griffen-Foley, From the Frontier: Essays in honour of D.B. Waterson, special issue of Australian Cultural History, vol x, 2001

Paula Hamilton and Paul Ashton (eds), Australians and the Past, special issue of Australian Cultural History, vol 22, 2003

Founding co-editor, Gateways: International Journal on Community Engagement, 2008-

Co-editor (with Matthew Bailey) of From the Ground Up, special issue of Sydney Journal, vol 4, no 1, 2013

EDITOR (MAGAZINES)
Paul Ashton, Louella McCarthy and Paula Hamilton, Locality: The Community History Magazine, from Autumn 2000 to Summer 2003

EDITOR (BOOKS, COLLECTIONS, PROCEEDINGS)
Coordinator and editor, Bust, Boom and Bust: Some reminiscences of wheat and wheat breeding in Australia, compiled by F. E. Stanton, NSW Department of Agriculture, Sydney, December 1984

Bridging the Gap: National Issues in Local History, Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS) Annual Conference 1988, RAHS, Sydney, 1989

The Future of the Past? Australian history after the Bicentenary, Proceedings of the RAHS Annual Conference 1989, Sydney, 1990

Planning Sydney: Nine Planners Remember, Sydney City Council, Sydney, 1992

Paul Ashton and Louella McCarthy (Centre for Commnunity History, University of NSW), Open Museum Research Report, Sydney City Council, Sydney, 1994

ARTICLES IN NEWSPAPERS/ MAGAZINES
Paul Ashton and Louella McCarthy, 'Lest we Remember' (1200 words on monuments and memorials/ history and memory), The Australian, 13 March 1995, p13, c. 6-7

Paul Ashton, 'History has a big future', The Daily Telegraph, 6 November 1997, p20

Paul Ashton, 'Searching for connection with the past', Sydney Morning Herald (Opinion page), 21 September 1998, p17

Duncan Waterson and Paul Ashton, 'Commonwealth Games', The Bulletin, 19 December 2000 to 2 January 2001, Federation Supplement, pp40-2

OTHER
'Law School Enrolments 1890-1990', in John and Judy Mackinolty (eds), A Century Down Town: Sydney University Law School's First Hundred Years, Sydney University Law School, Sydney 1991, pp207-209

'Law School Teachers' (with Pat Manley) in ibid, pp259-262

UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
'Outline History of the NSW Department of Agriculture', for the NSW Department of Agriculture, Sydney 1984

Jennifer Cornwall and Paul Ashton, 'A Time of Hope: A History of the Australian Heritage Commission', Sydney, 2002

Select Conference Papers and Presentations

'Property Capital and the Urbanisation of Ultimo, Sydney, 1794-1901', paper presented at Sydney History Group Conference, `The City: Past, Present and Possible', June 1986

'Writing local history', paper presented at the Royal Australian Historical Society workshop on producing and publishing local history, 1 July 1989

'The Nuts and bolts of local history', paper presented at Riverina Archives and RAHS history workshop, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 5 August 1989

'Marx's interpretation of the Scottish highland clearings', paper presented to the Sydney Society for Scottish History, 21 September 1989

'Oral history: problems and approaches', paper presented at the Community History Program, University of NSW, Far West Region Seminar, Broken Hill, 19-20 May 1990. (Also a paper, 'Matters of Heritage', 20 May, History and member of Heritage Panel Session)

Submission to the History Advisory Committee of the NSW Heritage Council, NSW Department of Planning, regarding Draft Historical Guidelines and Regional Histories Volumes 1 and 2, in the State Heritage Inventory Project, March 1991. Paper requested by the History Advisory Committee

Paper on oral history presented to Conference jointly held by the Fairfield Community Museum and the Museum's Association of Australia (NSW Branch), 21 September 1991

Paper on oral history presented to the Cowra Breakout Committee, Cowra NSW, 2 November 1991: invitation from Community History Program, School of History, University of NSW

'Historical Evolution and Development of Community: the repression of sub culture of people with developmental disabilities', paper presented at Understanding Our Own Country through Community History, Community History Program, University of NSW, in conjunction with Ideas for Australia and the Australia Council for the Arts, 16 November 1991

'Angels on a pinhead: Planners and strategic planning in Sydney after World War Two', Conference on 'The Australian Planner', School of Town Planning, University of NSW, 13 March 1993 (published as part of papers and proceedings, Robert Freestone (ed), The Australian Planner, School of Town Planning, University of NSW, Kensington 1993, pp.267-273)

'Renegotiating community and history: an historical perspective on public history', Australian Historical Society Conference, University of Western Australia, Perth, 28 September 1994

Joint workshop (with Louella McCarthy, Centre for Community History, School of History, University of NSW) on researching and writing history, Maitland City Council Library, 1 April 1995 (one-day workshop)

'Modern suburbs? French's forest, Matraville and the Voluntary Workers Association of NSW 1916-1921', paper presented to the Urban Planning/Urban History Conference, ANU, 28 June 1995

'Greening Oral History: Investigating social value in the environment', paper presented to 'Words at Work', Annual conference of the Oral History Association of Australia, Launceston, 10 September 1995

Joint workshop (with Louella McCarthy, Centre for Community History, School of History, University of NSW) on researching and writing history, All Saints Church, Parramatta, 6 February 1996 (one-day workshop)

'International perspectives on teaching public history: commentary', International Conference on Public History, National Council on Public History, Austin, Texas, 16 April 1998

'Public History in Australia', Plenary session, International Conference on Public History, National Council on Public History, Austin, Texas, 17 April 1998

Invited paper, 'Contested Spaces: Cultural and Intangible Heritage in Australia', presented to the Department of History, Arizona State University, 20 April 1998

'Selling Out? Commissioned History in Australia, 1914-1998', paper delivered to the Department of History, California State University, Sacramento, 24 April 1998

'A place in the Sun?: Ethnic monuments in post WWII Sydney', National Council on Public History, annual conference, April 2001, Ottawa, Canada

'Australians and the Past', National Council on Public History, annual conference, April 2002, Washington, DC, USA

'Teaching Graduate Public History in Australia', National Council on Public History, annual conference, April 2004, Victoria Island (Vancouver), Canada

'Australians and the Past: Undertaking a national survey on historical consciousness', Centre for Historical Consciousness, University of British Columbia, April 2004

'Teaching history: Australians and the Past', invited paper, History Teachers Association of Australia, National Annual; Conference, September 2004

'Australians and the Past: meanings for museums', invited paper presented to the staff of the National Museum of Australia, 4 August 2005

'Making and contesting histories: Australians and their Pasts', People and Their Pasts, International Public History conference, Ruskin College, Oxford, September 2005

''Literary, contingent and personal: writing public history', invited paper, Writers' Week, NSW Writers' Centre, 24 September 2005

'NSW Extension History and Public History', invited paper, History Teachers Association of Australia, National Annual Conference, September 2006

'Australians and the Past: international comparisons', Public History Conference, University of Swansea, April 2007

Seattle and Prague papers, International Oral History Association, 2009, 2010

'Australian Public History' paper delivered to the International Conference, New Directions in Public History, September 2010, UTS

'Australians and the Past', invited paper, The Past Around Us: Historical consciousness in the 21st Century international conference, Laval University, Quebec, September 2011

(with Pauline O'Loughlin) 'Tertiary Community Engagement in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities', invited keynote panel paper, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, January 2015, and facilitator, workshop on developing community engagement program in Universities

'Open Access Publishing: A case study of the Gateways international journal of community tertiary engagement', Conference on Online and Open Publishing, State Library of NSW, October 2015.

Select, Chair, Conference Sessions

Chair, 'State Heritage Inventory Regional Histories Project' session, History in Conservation Work Conference, Professional Historians Association NSW Inc in association with NSW Department of Planning, The Rocks, 23 November 1990

Chair, 'A place for all of us' session, Redefining the Norm: Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Museums, National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, 31 March 1995

Chair, 'Future Directions', Public History Conference, 24 June 1995, Professional Historians Association NSW

Chair, 'Teaching Public History', National Council on Public History, Annual Conference, Victoria, Canada, April 2004

Select, Conference Convenor

(with Shirley Fitzgerald) Public History Conference, Millers Point, 24 June 1995

(with Paul Hamilton and Jane Connors) Public History Conference, 22 June 1997

New Development in Public History, International conference, UTS, 2010

(with Jacquie Wilson et al), 'Place, Trace and Identity', UTS/Parramatta female Factory Memory Project, September 2013

Australian Dictionary of Biography

Blake, Richard Charles (1903-1967), Chairman, Australian Egg Board, vol 13, pp195-196

Select Book Reviews

Ken Buckley and Ted Wheelwright, No Paradise for Workers: Capitalism and the Common People in Australia 1788-1914, OUP, Melbourne 1988, in Labour History, no 55, November 1988, pp86-88

Michael Christie, The Sydney Markets 1788-1988, Sydney Market Authority, Sydney 1988, in Phanfare, no 50, October 1989, pp1-2

Christine Stevens, Tin Mosques and Ghantowns: A History of Afghan Cameldrivers in Australia, OUP, Melbourne 1989, in Phanfare, no 59, August 1990, pp1-3

Robert Murray and Kate White, Dharug and Dungaree: A History of Penrith and St Marys to 1860, Harcourt Publishing Company in conjunction with City of Penrith Council, North Melbourne 1988, in Locality, vol 4, no 1, March-April 1990, pp12; 16

Grace Karskens, Holroyd: A Social History of Western Sydney, NSW University Press, Sydney 1991, in Phanfare, no 73, pp 5-6

Gerald Walsh, Pioneering Days: People and Innovations in Australia's Rural Past, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1994

Beth Robertson, Oral History Handbook, Oral History Association of Australia, Adelaide 1994, in Public History Review, no 3, 1994, pp.257-258

Mary McPherson, Telling Tales Out of School, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1996, in Public History Review, vol 5-6, 1997, pp 244-5

Graeme Davison, The Use and Abuse of Australian History, Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1999, in Public History Review, vol 8, 2000, pp198-200

Review of the National Museum of Australia, 'A Trojan Horse', Public History Review, vol 9, 2001, pp126-28

David Carment, A Past Displayed and Denis Byrne et al, Social Significance: A Discussion Paper, in Public History Review, vol 10, 2003, pp126-28

Pauline Curby, Seven Miles from Sydney: A History of Manly, in Public History Review, vol 10, 2003, pp146-7

Richard Aitken, Seeds of Change: An Illustrated History of Adelaide Botanic Gardens, in Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, 2007

Cathy Stanton, The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial city, in Public History Review, vol 14, 2007, pp150-1

Roland Bannister, Music and Love: Music in the lives of Italian Australians in Griffith, New South Wales, Italian Australian Institute, in Australian Journal of Musicology, forthcoming

Simon J. Knell, Suzanne MacLeod and Sheila Watson (eds), Museum Revolutions: How museums change and are changed, Routledge, in recollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, vol 2, no 2, 2008

Jeremy Black, Contesting History: Narratives of Public History, Bloomsbury, New York, 2014, in American Historical Review, June 2015, pp964-965

Thesis Completions
22 PhD completions, as well as 1 under examination, 1 submitting 2017 and 1 in 2018

2 MA completions, as well 1 under examination

Thesis Examination

PhD
Timothy David Bottoms, 'A History of Cairns: City of the south Pacific (1770-1995)', school of Humanities, Central Queensland University, (examined 2002)

Dale Lehner, 'The Ordinary Settler on the Darling Downs: An investigation into locality, language, life and landscape', PhD thesis, Department of Modern History, Macquarie University (examined 2004)

Marjorie Gilmore, 'Kill, Cure or Strangle: The History of Government Intervention in Three Key Agricultural Industries on the Atherton Tablelands, 1895-2005', PhD thesis, school of Humanities, James Cook University (examined 2005)

George Barry Gray, 'The Development of the Wine Industry in the Mirrool Irrigation Area of New South Wales between 1910 and 1960', PhD thesis, Department of Modern History, Macquarie University (examined 2006)

Ruth Donovan, 'Australian Public History: Growth of a Profession?', PhD thesis, Discipline of History, University of Western Australia (examined 2006)

A. Barry, 'A History of Audiology in Australia', PhD thesis, Department of History, Macquarie University (examined 2007)

Richard Strauss, 'The Outdoor Living Supplement: Outdoor recreation in Postwar Sydney1945-1975', PhD thesis, Department of History, Macquarie University (examined 2008)

Kais Al-momani, 'Socio-cultural interaction of Arab immigration groups with Australian host society (Jordanian migrants - case study)', PhD thesis, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney (examined 2008)

Matthew Bailey, 'A History of the development of Shopping Centres in NSW from the 1950s', Department of History, Macquarie University (examined 2011)
Ann Highfield, 'A More Advantageous Site: A History of Midland, WA, 1894-2005', PhD thesis, International, Cultural and Community Studies, Edith Cowan University, 2008

Louise Prowse, 'A Popular Past?: Historical identity and the rural ideal in Australian country towns 1945-2000', PhD thesis, The University of Sydney (examined 2015)

Mark Samuel Smith, 'Using the Past: Learning Histories, Public Histories and Possibilities', PhD thesis, The University of Waikato (examined 2015)

Janne Clara Lindrum, The Uncrowned king, thesis, Faculty of Law, Humanities, and the Arts, University of Wollongong (examined 2015)

Patricia Funnell, 'Death of the Chapel: the disappearance of printers in Queensland Newspapers', PhD, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland (examined 2016)

Masters
'Disability in Sydney', MA, Department of History, University of  Melbourne (examined 2000)

Stephen Deed, 'Unearthly Landscapes: The Development of the cemetery in Nineteenth century New Zealand', MA thesis, Department of History, University of Otago, New Zealand (examined 2002)

Diana Lorentz, 'A Study of the Notions of Immersive Experience in Museum Based Exhibitions', Masters of Design, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney (examined 2007)

Chris Linke, 'Side-by-Side Memorials and Australian Vietnam War Remembrance', MA thesis, School of History, Heritage and Society, Deakin University (examined 2012)

Steven Hamill, 'A Beginner's guide to Homesickness: The Inside Story', minor thesis, MA Education, Federation University Australia (examined 2014)

External Curriculum Review

Peer review (invited external), Nature of History Making (BA Unit), Southern Cross University, School of Arts, 2003

External Invitations for Reviews, Reports and Assessments

Invitation (with Paula Hamilton) to assess the public history potential of the Department of History, National University of Singapore, 2003

Invitation (with Paula Hamilton) to advise a Canadian research team on national research grant application for 'Canadians and the Past', University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2004

Invited 'overseas authority' to assess Emeritus Professor John McCraw's application for the award of degree of Doctors of Letters (LittD), University of Otago, 2007

Peer Review of the Preliminary National Heritage List Assessment, 'Sydney: Convict Colony to Civic Nation' Draft Report, prepared for the Federal Department of Environment by GML Heritage, 2014

Journal Referee (select)

Journal of Australian Studies
The Public Historian
History Australia
International Journal of Heritage Studies
Australian Historical Studies
Amerasia Journal
Journal of Australian Colonial History
Recollections (National Museum of Australia)
Oral History Association of Australia Journal