Project Outcomes
Australian Research Data Commons, 'Telling Human Stories With Time-Layered Cultural Map'
URL: https://ardc.edu.au/case-study/telling-human-stories-with-time-layered-cultural-map/
Special issue of Australian Journal of Biography and History, 'Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery'
DOI: http://doi.org/10.22459/AJBH.06.2022
People Australia
Shakespear Hamilton: Sandy McGhie and Xavier Reader,” Shakespear Hamilton,” People Australia, National Centre of Biography: Australian National University (2022): https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/hamilton-shakespear-32807
Maria Schaw: Sandy McGhie and Xavier Reader, “Maria Susan Schaw,” People Australia, National Centre of Biography: Australian National University (2022): https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/schaw-maria-susan-32769
George William Mangles: Sandy McGhie and Xavier Reader, “George William Mangles,” People Australia, National Centre of Biography: Australian National University (2022): https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/mangles-george-william-32768#_edn21
Edward William Butcher: Sandy McGhie and Xavier Reader, “Edward William Butcher,” People Australia, National Centre of Biography: Australian National University (2022): https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/butcher-edward-william-32694
Peter Pegus: Xavier Reader, Georgina Arnott, Jane Lydon and Zoë Laidlaw, “Peter Pegus,” People Australia, National Centre of Biography: Australian National University (2022): https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/pegus-peter-32630
Alan Lester
Lester, Alan, Deny and Disavow: Distancing Britain's Imperial Past in the Culture Wars, SunRise Press, 2022: https://www.sunpub.info/deny-and-disavow
Jane Lydon
Lydon, Jane, ‘The Legacies of British Slavery in Australia’s Labour History’, Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History 123 (2022): 86-94, muse.jhu.edu/article/869924.
Lydon, Jane , ‘From Demerara to Swan River: Western Australian Legacies of British Slavery’, Australian Journal of Biography and History 6 (2022), 23 – 49, DOI: 10.22459/AJBH.06.2022.02.
Lydon, Jane, ‘“Mr Wakefield’s Speaking Trumpets”: Abolishing Slavery and Colonising Systematically’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2022), 50:1, 81-112, DOI:10.1080/03086534.2021.1956834.
Georgina Arnott
Arnott, Georgina, 'James Stirling (1791 - 1865), enslavement and Western Australia', 14 February 2022, Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery blog, https://lbsatucl.wordpress.com/ Georgina Arnott, 'Linger With the Voids', a review of Black Ghost of Empire by Kris Manjapra, Australian Book Review, pp 27 - 29
We congratulate Georgina on her appointment as Assistant Editor at the Australian Book Review, and thank her for important contribution to the WALBS project from 2020-2022.
Zoë Laidlaw
Presentations
'Australian Legacies of British Slavery', Coburg Historical Society and Moreland Libraries, 19 October 2022.
'Capital, Agents and Absentees: Legacies of British Slavery in the Port Phillip District, Paper presented to From Slavery to Colonisation: Land and Labour Symposium, 30 November 2022.
'Australian Legacies of British Slavery', ABC Radio, 6 May 2023, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/australian-legacies-of-british-slavery/102309268.
Digital Interns
The Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, supported Ge Tang and Canaan Zengyu Lan as interns in the Digital Studio, under Zoë Laidlaw's supervision. The project, 'Victorian Legacies of British Slavery' compared Caribbean estate names from the LBS database with Victorian pastoral property names derived from Billis and Kenyon’s 1932 Pastoral Pioneers of the Port Phillip District. The next phase of this work will involve plotting the interns' findings on the TLCMap. See https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/research/digital-studio/projects
Melbourne-Manchester Joint PhD Opportunities
Two Cookson Scholars will be appointed to work with Dr Zoë Laidlaw (Melbourne) and Dr Edmond Smith (Manchester) on PhD projects hosted jointly by the Universities of Melbourne and Manchester. The two PhD projects are 'From Plantation Slavery to Imperial Labour: Exploiting Workers in Britain, India and Australia' (applications close 17 March 2023) and 'From Slavery to Settler Colonisation: Atlantic Capital and the Colonisation of the Port Philip District' (applications close 1 November 2023). For further details see https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/golden/melbourne/
Jeremy Martens
Publications
Martens, Jeremy. "Forced Labour, Indenture and Convict Transportation: A Case Study of the Western Australian Pastoral Industry, 1830–50." Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History 125 (2023): 31-54. muse.jhu.edu/article/910711.
Martens, Jeremy, '"In a State of War": Governor James Stirling, Extrajudicial Violence and the Conquest of Western Australia's Avon Valley, 1830-1840', History Australia 19, No. 4 (2022), 668 - 686. https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2022.2072351.
Martens, Jeremy, 'New research shows WA’s first governor condoned killing of Noongar people despite proclaiming all equal under law', The Conversation, 14 September 2021. https://theconversation.com/new-research-shows-was-first-governor-condoned-killing-of-noongar-people-despite-proclaiming-all-equal-under-law-165871
Presentations
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Seminar Series, “The Legacies of British Slavery and Labour History”, 16 May 2022.
LEAP Webinar Series, 27 October 2021.
Paul Arthur
Publications
Arthur, Paul Longley, and Isabel Smith. “Biographical Research and Digital Mapping.” In Biographical Data in a Digital World 2022. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Arthur, Paul Longley, and Isabel Smith. “Human Journeys in the Digital Age: Advances and Challenges in Digital Historical Migration Studies.” Frontiers in Human Dynamics 4 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2022.915978
Arthur, Paul Longley, and Isabel Smith. “Exhibiting Slavery: Biographical Approaches,” Australian Journal of Biography and History no. 6 (2022): 171–88. http://doi.org/10.22459/AJBH.06.2022
Presentations
Arthur, Paul Longley, Isabel Smith, Jane Lydon, Jeremy Martens, Zoe Laidlaw. "Using Digital Tools to Map the Movement of Capital, People and Culture from Slave-owning Britain to Western Australia." Paper presented at Digital Humanities 2023, the international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Associations (ADHO), Graz, Austria, July 2023.
Arthur, Paul Longley, Isabel Smith, Jane Lydon, Jeremy Martens, Zoe Laidlaw. “Mapping Slave Trade Migration with Spatio-Temporal Data”. IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network) 20th annual conference, Warsaw, Poland, July 2023.
Arthur, Paul Longley and Isabel Smith. “The Digital Transformation of Museums: Slavery Heritage and Slavery Memory”. Past and Present, Built and Social: A Conference on Culture, History, Art and Design, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2023.
Arthur, Paul Longley, Isabel Smith, and Lydia Hearn. “Crowdsourcing in Museums: The Power of Community Engagement.” Paper presented at the 5th World Conference on Social Sciences, Berlin, Germany, December 2022.
Arthur, Paul Longley. “Directions in Humanities Research Infrastructure.” Invited paper presented at the Mapping Culture and History workshop, NUSpace, University of Newcastle, Australia, November 2022.
Arthur, Paul Longley, and Isabel Smith. “Digital Historical Migration Studies and the Time-Layered Cultural Map.” Invited seminar presented at the Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Sweden, October 2022.
Arthur, Paul Longley, and Isabel Smith. “Virtual Exhibitions on Slavery: New Approaches in Digital Storytelling.” Paper presented in the Research Centre for Arts, Communication, Design & Culture seminar series, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, August 2022
Arthur, Paul Longley, and Isabel Smith. “Mapping Biography and Influence: The Time-Layered Cultural Map of Australia.” Paper presented for the Biographical Data in a Digital World 2022 workshop at Digital Humanities 2022, the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, University of Tokyo, Japan, July 2022.
https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/events/2022/2022-07-25-bd/?print=1
Arthur, Paul Longley, Isabel Smith, and Lydia Hearn. “Bringing the Past into the Present: Representing the Forced Migration of Slavery in Contemporary Exhibitions.” Paper presented at Migration and Time: Temporalities of Mobility, Governance, and Resistance, the 19th annual IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network) conference, Oslo, Norway, June-July 2022.
Arthur, Paul Longley, and Isabel Smith. “Exhibiting Slavery: Biographical Approaches.” Paper presented at Life-Writing: Imagining the Past, Present and Future, the 12th Biennial World Conference of the Auto/Biography Association (IABA), University of Turku, Finland, June 2022. https://iabaturku2022.net