Fay Woodhouse is a professional historian, writing history and biography for universities, government agencies and individuals. Her most recent history, From vision to reality: the Kindilan story 1972–2012, was published in 2013. She is currently completing the fifty-year history of the Monash Law School. Fay is also the Victorian researcher for The Australian dictionary of biography and is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her other recent publications includeThe story behind the stripe: a 100 year history of d’Arenberg(2012), Vintage stories: a 150 year history of Tahbilk (2010) and Working for welfare: a history of the Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers (2010). In her spare time Fay is writing the sixty-year history of Melbourne’s first yoga school, the Gita School of Yoga.
Author email: flw@unimelb.edu.au

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