'Marilyn Lake — Tasmanian high achiever, academic, inspired and inspiring historian, thinker, collaborator, mentor, teacher, activist, role‐model, provocateur, friend, ally and shape shifter — is at the centre of this wonderfully rich and appropriately thoughtful collection of essays in her honour. From beginning to end one is left with the sense of a leading Australian historian whose contributions to Australian life and thought, and to Australian history, have been profound, an “astonishing record of achievement” in the words of Ann McGrath.' (Introduction)