Despite her title, Kimberly isnt a librarian at all but she is an historian, archivist and museum curator.

Over her long career she has worked in many cultural organisations in the community, non-government and government sectors including the Mitchell Library State Library of NSW, the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW.

Kimberly is passionate about history and cultural memory, in particular local and social history.

History enriches our world, showing us that we are all products of history whether we know it or not, she said.

It matters because it gives us a way to comprehend the past; history helps us to understand our world now.

It breaks my heart that so many people were put off history at school by a dry history syllabus which focused to much on dates and important men and not enough on what makes history so wonderful human stories.

See Kimberlys first edition of Unlocking the Past here.