Professor Pat Jalland is a professor of history in the School of History at the Australian National University. A Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Royal Historical Society in the United Kingdom, she is the author of a number of acclaimed books. Most recently, she has published Death in War and Peace: A History of Loss and Grief in England, 1914-1970, the second of two books on the history of death, grief and mourning in England, and Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business, a highly praised follow up to Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840-1918. Pat will be speaking about some of the biographical work she has undertaken for her current book project, which is a history of old age in Australia.