Julia Horne is University Historian at the University of Sydney. She has written extensively on the history of universities and the history of landscape and travel. She is the author of The Pursuit of Wonder (2005), Not an Ivory Tower (1997) and Jenolan Caves: When the Tourists Came (1994).

Geoffrey Sherington is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney. Author of numerous books on the history of education and the history of migration, for the past two decades he has studied aspects of the public university in Australia.

Roderic Campbell is a poet and writer with interests in historical travel-writing, and a researcher in History at Sydney University. He has published a biography of former NSW State Governor, Gordon Samuels Looking Back: A university chancellor reflects, UNSW Archives (2005).