Paul Ashton

Paul Ashton started his career as a high school teacher and ended up a professor of public history at the University of Technology Sydney. At UTS he co-founded the Australian Centre for Public History and the Centre for Creative Practice and Cultural Economy. His numerous publications range from What is Public History Globally: Working with the Past in the Present (Bloomsbury, co-edited with Alex Trapeznik) to Once Upon a Time: Australian Writers on Using the Past (Australian Scholarly Publishing, co-edited with Anna Clark and Robert Crawford). He has recently published a number of children’s books in Halstead Press’ Accidental Histories series including Anna and the Cult of the Dead. This led him to edit a collection entitled If It’s Not True if Should Be: Writing Creative non-fiction history for children and adults (Halstead). Paul lives in an inner city suburb of Sydney with his partner in a wooden cottage built in 1906.