Scott Seymour describes himself as an ‘amateur historian’ and has been researching colonial and military history topics for more than a decade with a special interest in Risdon Cove, the Boer War and WW1. He is a frequent contributor in the press and on radio in Hobart on local history topics.

G.A. Brown is a Tasmanian writer, sculptor, musician with a sci-fi rock opera to spruik, theoretical quantum physics hobbyist and amateur historian. George started transcribing archival documents in 2004 and then graduated to co-writing, White Lies: The Retrial of Risdon Cove, as well as digitising the 1830 Aboriginal Committee hearings and Kelly’s Journal Around Van Diemen’s Land, because it hadn’t been done. At the moment he is writing a script version of the story of Dalrymple Mountgarrett Johnson, matriarch and amazing Aboriginal/English woman of the early 1800’s, also surprisingly, because it hasn’t yet been done.

Roger Karge is a self-employed scientist and amateur history enthusiast based in Port Phillip, that part of the colony that was an initial failure by Hobart’s David Collins but went on to become a stunning Vandemonian success story. Roger brings decades of experience in R&D, business and proprietary IT to bear on history projects – such as uncovering the Man of Mystery Edward White and exposing the Dark Emu hoax. The next book project with Scott and George will be, The Search for the Lost Tomb of David Collins, which will be published sometime in 2023.

Together the three authors operate a part-time business in Hobart called Hidden Histories.