Sarah works as a historian, researcher, writer and educator. She studied history and English at Monash University before taking up a career in teaching. Sarah became involved in the development of new history curriculum in Victoria and went on to co-author several successful history textbooks, including the award winning Making History: Investigating People and Issues in Australia after World War 11.
After a stint at the Museum of Victoria and Heritage Council Victoria as education officer, Sarah returned to study and completed her Masters in Public History at Monash University. On completion she set up the consultancy Past and Future Perspectives, which specializes in public history, historical research, curriculum development and heritage assessments.
The opportunity to explore her passion for environmental history saw Sarah return to Monash in 2009 to undertake a PhD. Her thesis explores the life of E.J. Brady, a radical poet and socialist, and his relationship with the remote and wild environment of Mallacoota in far East Gippsland. This is both an environmental history and biographical study. It was nominated for the Molly Holman Medal for Excellence in a PhD Thesis.
Sarah was awarded her PhD in 2011 and returned to her public history, heritage and education business. Tim Flannery wrote the forward for her most recent commissioned history, Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine. This environmental history tells the story of how remnant bush, a tip and a polluted creek seven kilometers from the Melbourne CBD was transformed into vibrant parklands. Sarah has also lectured at Monash University Gippsland, as well undertaking curriculum projects and heritage assessments. She continues independent research into environmental history with a focus on the relationship between suburbia and environmentalism.
'E.J. Brady and the Making of Australia Unlimited’
Australian Historical Studies. Volume 42, Issue 2, 2012.
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'The Blackburn Open Air School’
Provenance, November 2011.
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'Tired Little Australian Children are still plodding unnecessary miles in rain or shine’
Provenance, September 2007.
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James Barrett, Urban Progressive Ideas and National Park Reservation in Victoria
Australian Historical Studies, October 2002.
Taylor and Francis Online visit site
The Former Lake View Property, Croajingalong National Park.
Prepared for Parks Victoria,
Sarah Mirams and Sarah Myers
February 2012.
Gippsland Trade and Labour Council Collection
Prepared for the Centre for Gippsland Studies, Monash University Gippsland
September 2012.
Melbourne Books, 2011
Forward by Tim Flannery
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Australian History VCE Units 3 and 4
S. Mirams, Maryellen Galbally and Sue Gordon
Cengage, 2006.
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Mirams, S.J.
Cengage, Melbourne, 2003.
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Mirams, S.J.
Cengage, Melbourne.
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Sarah Mirams undertakes historic research for a number of regular clients including the Centre for Gippsland Studies at Monash University and Sarah Myers at Archlink Archeologists and Heritage Advisors.
Sarah specializes in Heritage Assessments and Cultural Heritage Managements Plans (CHMP).
Recent projects include ‘Mount Unicorn, Corryong’, CHMP for Dart Mining’, completed January 2012 and ‘Pattulus Lane, Broadmeadows, CHMP’, for the Kara Group of Companies, completed December 2011. Sarah contributed to a study of the impacts of climate change on settlements in the Westernport region of Victoria undertaking historical research on climate events. In 2013 she commences researching the World War One maritime military history of far East Gippsland, a project funded through a grant received by the Mallacoota and District Historical Society from the Australian National Maritime Museum.
Sarah continues to work in the history education field. She was appointed educational consultant with the Heritage Council Victoria for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEET) FUSE ‘One Place, Many Stories’ Web 2 Interactive historic mapping project in 2010. Sarah is presently writing history material for the Australian Curriculum. She is a contributing author at Cengage Learning for the new textbook Connect With History for the Australian Curriculum Year 10, which will be available in late 2012.
‘A Sea-changer in Mallacoota’ - or what happens when the worlds of a radical socialist and a conservative rural community collide in 1918?’ is an on-going project, which will transform Sarah’s academic thesis into a ripping yarn.
Sarah Mirams specializes in
environmental history
commissioned histories
historic research
archival research
curriculum development
significance assessments
education materials
biography
teaching
Contact Sarah to discuss your history project.
Sarah is a member of the Professional Historians Association of Australia and negotiates her fees on the scale they recommend.
