Hilary L. Rubinstein

Hooked on history since given a pictorial history book at the age of five, Hilary is a freelance historian. She has a BA Hons in Economics, History and Politics, a PhD in History, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her historical interests are wide and her writings versatile, ranging from British naval history in the days of sail (she served a three-year term on the Council of the Navy Records Society) to modern Jewish history. She has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, and other reference works, as well as to Peter Hore (ed.) Nelson's Band of Brothers, and to other historical anthologies. Her biography of colourful Trafalgar captain Philip Durham was published in 2005 and she has since edited his naval papers for the Navy Records Society. Her latest book is Catastrophe at Spithead: The Sinking of the Royal George (Seaforth Publishing, 2020). She qualified as a professional librarian in the USA, and has worked as such at St Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, the London School of Economics, the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, and in a large private library and archive. She has, more recently, been a Research Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne as well as an Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University in Australia, where she previously lectured. She also lectured at the University of Lampeter in Wales.