Saving the past for the future
Ann Beaumont is an award-winning writer and historian, whose work mainly focuses on the eighteen and nineteenth centuries in England and Australia. She has published seven books, five of them commissions. She also provides editorial services for other writers.
For many years she worked as a journalist in Australia and Europe, and while she still does some freelance writing her main interest is in historical writing, both non-fiction and fiction. She has an academic qualification in history and communications.
In recent years she has researched and written a number of family, local, property and centenary histories. Her book A Light in the Window won an NSW National Trust Heritage Award in 2014. It is available to purchase from Highland House Publications.
Her book A Man of Many Parts is the biography of Edward Close, known as the Father of the Hunter who was one of the Duke of Wellington’s ex-military men instrumental in the development of the colony of New South Wales. It can be purchased from Highland House Publications.
Ann is currently working on a commissioned history as well an historical novel set in England and Australia. In 2021 she was awarded the Di Yerbury Writer’s Residency to spend three months during 2022 in England doing further research and writing on her novel.
She is a member of the Royal Australian Historical Society, The Society of Australian Genealogists, the Australian Society of Authors and The Society of Women Writers NSW. She is the Principal of Highland House Publications.
