Recognised for service to community history
Dr Beverley Kingston of Woy Woy has been appointed a member of the Order of Australia for significant service to community history and tertiary education.
A Pearl Beach resident and committee member of Pearl Beach Progress Association from 2017 to 2021, she wrote Pearl Beach and Progress, The Story of a Community and an Ideal 1929-2009 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Pearl Beach Progress Association.
She was chair of the Australian Dictionary of Biography New South Wales Working Party from 1994 to 2023, editorial board member from 1996-2021 and member from 1970-2023.
She has also been a patron of Jessie St National Women's Library since 2022 and board member from 2006 to 2022.
A history teacher and former associate professor, she also wrote: A History of New South Wales; Basket, Bag and Trolley: A History of Shopping in Australia; The World Moves Slowly: A Documentary History of Australian Women; and My Wife, My Daughter, and Poor Mary Ann: Women and Work in Australia.
Her awards and recognition include Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1994, and Annual History Citation, History Council of New South Wales.
SOURCE:
Media release, 11 June 2025
Lynne Lillico, Pearl Beach Progress Association