Profound History
Bringing your history into the 21st century
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About Us
Profound History is the brain child of professional historian,
Yvonne Perkins.
Profound History ensures your history is heard in the 21st century by drawing on the unique mix of historical, technical and public communication skills that Yvonne Perkins has developed during her career.
Some of Our Projects
Website Development
Profound History does website development with a difference. Yvonne Perkins understands the needs of organisations working in the heritage and history sector, and combines this with her technical skills to produce websites that engage the target…
The Story of May and Stanley Smith
The little-known story of Australian business man, Stanley Smith, and his Chinese wife, May, is a fascinating story of war, espionage and business during the first half of the volatile twentieth century…
Blog – Stumbling Through the Past
Yvonne Perkins is an experienced blogger who has been writing for a number of blogs since 2010. Her main blog, Stumbling Through the Past, is about history and historical issues. It has a global audience. She…
Social Media and Publicity Workshops
Yvonne Perkins has provided workshops to help professional historians develop social media skills and to help participants publicise their businesses. By the end of each workshop, the participants had applied their learning in a way that…
Beauty & Stillness Exhibition
Writing for Exhibitions Chinese-Australian Artist, Jim Chen, hired Yvonne Perkins to write exhibition labels and collateral material for his exhibition that was part of Sydney’s ‘Head On Photo Festival’. Yvonne started the assignment by learning more…
Europeans in Australia
Research Assistance Yvonne Perkins assisted historian, Alan Atkinson with some research and referencing work on his award-winning book, The Europeans in Australia, Volume Three: Nation. This work involved Yvonne doing further research into the history of…
Teaching Reading in Australia
History of How Australians Learned to Read The Teaching Reading in Australia research project (funded in 2009-10 by the Australian Research Council DP0987648) explored the history of teaching reading in Australia during the 19th and early…
Clients say...
“I really appreciated how Yvonne Perkins explained to me what she was doing while she was developing my website. She used non-technical language without talking down to me. She did not over-promise and she delivered what she promised to deliver.”
Judith Nissen, professional freelance historian
“Yvonne Perkins was a key member of an international team of historians and writers I recruited to research and write a book about a Brisbane-born philanthropist. Yvonne is a tenacious, resourceful researcher, an astute historian, and a lively, skilful writer. It was an absolute pleasure working with her.”
Susan Milstein, Personal History Productions
“… Yvonne Perkins has made a very significant difference, tying her own perceptive research on the Federation period, its moral and religious dimensions, to my own inquiries.”
Alan Atkinson, emeritus professor and award-winning author of Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation.