Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Professor of History, and Head of the School of History, at the Australian National University. She works in the fields of Australian history, British Empire history, and feminist and postcolonial history. Her books include On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (1994); To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (2001); and Gender and Empire (2006).