Brad Manera is the Senior Historian and Curator of the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney. His career began at the Western Australian Museum and has included foundation curatorial work for the National Museum of Australia, gallery development at the Australian War Memorial and the World Heritage listing submission for the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. A keen public historian, he has led battlefield tours around the world and featured in a range of documentaries. His latest book, In That Rich Earth (2020), is a study of the battlefields on which men and women of New South Wales have served from colonial times to the present.