About Us

Way Back When began twenty years ago, when Katherine and Sarah were studying public history at Monash University.

Inspired by the idea of helping communities to connect with the past, they took the first steps toward setting up a consultancy. By 2006, Way Back When had completed its first commission.

Lucy and Fiona joined the team in 2010. The rest, as we like to say, is history! Way Back When is now located in both Ballarat and Melbourne, allowing us to complete projects across metropolitan and regional areas.

Our team

Our profession

All members of Way Back When are highly qualified, having completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at the University of Melbourne and a Master of Public History at Monash University.

We are also accredited members of the Professional Historians Association (Victoria & Tasmania), members of Oral History Victoria and Friends of the History Council of Victoria.

Our extended team

We collaborate with a network of talented designers, sound engineers, filmmakers, and other professional historians and creatives, to create captivating histories in various formats.

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians on whose Country we live and work. We have much to learn from their enduring connection to land, culture and history. Sovereignty has never been ceded; this always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.