The HRE project

History Research Environment is a community project to create a free and open source platform-independent application for the serious or professional historical researcher.

The project consists of a volunteer community of software designers, programmers, historians and genealogists who work together to define and create the HRE software. The community is supported by a not-for-profit company, History Research Environment Limited, which acts as the signatory for any project contracts, and holds project funds.

The project is entirely non-profit and volunteer-based, and we have no paid employees. The directors of History Research Environment Limited are likewise volunteers.

Project Founder and Architect

Robin Lamacraft

Robin Lamacraft portrait

Robin, from Adelaide, Australia, is the founder and architect of the HRE Project. He has been a user of TMG from 1993, was Adelaide TMG User Group Leader 1998-2007 and is an expert in Visual Chartform. He has 40+ years experience of software development, mainly in statistics and operations research in industrial settings. 

 

HRE Board

Don Ferguson (Secretary)
DON_FERGUSON

Don is from New Zealand but resides in Melbourne, Australia. He has been engaged in IT in programming, software support, technical leadership and consulting for 40+ years. He is currently Secretary of History Research Environment Limited.

 

 

Bruce Fairhall
(Mailing List Manager) 2016-08-14 Bruce portrait

Bruce, from Sydney, Australia, has been a TMG User since the first Windows version, and enjoys pushing the way it stores and utilises data so that the program does what he wants it to do.  He maintains a Second Site web site, his research area being a world-wide one name study of Fairhall and variants. He became a member of the Sydney-NSW TMG User Group at its formation and has been group leader for several years. He manages the HRE mailing list.

Terry Dansey (Finance)

(Rochester, UK)

The board wishes to include others who have expertise in other history-related or cultural heritage disciplines. If you are interested, please contact us.