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Paul Ashton (BA [Hons] Dip Ed PhD Macquarie University) PHANSW), an Australian historian, was Professor of Public History and Founding Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Public History (ACPH) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) until 2015. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the ACPH and co-editor of the journal Public History Review and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra and the Department of History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University.

Before joining UTS in 1995, Paul was a consulting historian for twelve years. He has worked in a broad range of areas including heritage, community history, oral history, commissioned history and exhibitions.

Paul is a past President of the Professional Historians Association NSW Inc, a founding member of the Australian Council of Professional Historians Associations, a past Board Member of the National Council of Public History in the USA and Chair of the Board of the digital Dictionary of Sydney. He has worked with community groups, local, state and federal government agencies and not-for-profit and corporate organisations. He is a member of the NSW Heritage Council’s Heritage Advisory Committee and has on numerous occasions been a judge on the NSW Premier’s History Awards.

Select Books
 * Paul Ashton, The Accidental City: Planning Sydney Since 1788, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1993.
 * 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.
 * 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, 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 (revised and updated edition).
 * 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 Ross Gibson (eds), By-Roads and Hidden Treasures: Mapping cultural assets in regional Australia, University of WA Press, Perth 2015.
 * Lisa Anderson, Paul Ashton and Lisa Colley (eds), Creative Business in Australia: Learnings from the Creative Industries innovation Centre 2009-2015, UTSePress, Sydney, 2015.
 * David Aylward and Paul Ashton, The Ten Apostles: Stories of Australia’s Iconic Wine Makers, Halstead Press, Sydney, 2016.
 * Paul Ashton, Anna Clark and Robert Crawford (eds), Once Upon a Time: Australian Writers on Using the Past, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2016.
 * Paul Ashton, Terry Chesher, Vesna Dragon, Lisette Engel and Carla Knox, The First Forty Years: A History of the Health Care Interpreter Service, NSW Health, 2017.
 * Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik (eds), What is Public History Globally?, Bloomsbury, London and New York, forthcoming, 2018.

Select articles
 * 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, 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.

Select book chapters
 * 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 Paul Ashton, Caroline Butler-Bowden (et al), 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 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: New Contexts in Australian Public History: Australia’s Institutionalised and Incarcarated’, in Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson (eds), Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of Women and Children, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2014.
 * Sue Boaden and Paul Ashton, ‘Mainstreaming Culture: Integrating the Cultural Dimension into Local Government’, in Paul Ashton, Chris Gibson and Ross Gibson (eds), By-Roads and Hidden Treasures: Mapping cultural assets in regional Australia, University of WA Press, Perth 2015, pp19-36.
 * Paul Ashton and Meg Foster, ‘Public Histories’, in Sasha Handley, Rohan McWilliam and Lucy Noakes (eds), New Directions in Social and Cultural History, Bloomsbury, London and New York, 2018, pp151-170.