'Clare Wright is a historian and author who has worked in politics, academia and the media. She holds an MA in Public History from Monash University and a PhD in Australian Studies from the University of Melbourne.
'Her doctoral thesis, which won the inaugural Geoffrey Serle Award for the best postgraduate contribution to Australian history, is the subject of her first book, Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans.Wright is the author of a range of scholarly articles, and has been a political speechwriter and consultant historian. (Source : Making Australian History : Perspectives on the Past Since 1788).
'In 2013, Wright published The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka which delves into the lives of the women on the gold-fields at the time of the Eureka Stockade.'