Dr Leigh Straw is Arts Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle. In this role she teaches across the History program, specialising in Australian history and crime history.
Leigh Straw is also an award-winning author of several fiction and non-fiction works. In particular she has produced books on women and true crime including ‘Angel of Death: Dulcie Markham, Australia's most beautiful bad woman', 'The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh' and 'Lillian Armfield: How Australia's first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face of the force’.
Due to restrictions on the numbers of people attending public gatherings due to Covid 19, the 2020 Geoffrey Bolton Lecture was recorded in front of an invited but limited audience on 13 November 2020 at the State Library’s Theatre in the Perth Cultural Centre.
To listen to Leigh Straw’s address please click on the link below.
