Michelle Arrow is an award-winning historian based in Sydney. Michelle is an Associate Professor in Modern History at Macquarie University, where she teaches and researches postwar Australian history, the history of popular culture, and the ways history is depicted in television and film. She has been a research fellow at the National Archives of Australia and the National Library of Australia. She has won a national award for her university teaching and her two books have both been shortlisted for several prizes. Michelle has also produced history for radio and television: in 2004, she was a historian-presenter for the ABC TV series Rewind, and in 2013, she made her first radio documentary, Public Intimacies: The Royal Commission on Human Relationships, which won the 2014 Multimedia prize in the NSW Premier's History Awards.
'At last, personal politics as national history. In lucid and nimble prose, Michelle Arrow demonstrates that -- in the 1970s at least -- it was about the relationships, stupid. A revelation.' -- Clare Wright