Swimming Against the Tide

Lisa Milner is an Australian historian and activist. Her research interests circulate in the intersections of cultural activism and politics, and include the political and cultural productions of Australian communists and socialists, radical and workers' theatre in Anglophone nations, representations of workers and unions on screen, and labour history. Her work has been published widely in Australia, UK and the USA, including in Labour History, Contemporary British History, Australasian Drama Studies, and New Theatre Quarterly. Her monograph on Freda Brown, Swimming Against the Tide, was published in 2017. She is the Vice-President of Interventions, Australia's leading independent, not-for-profit publisher.