Projects
Brian Dalton’s Guide to Sources for North Queensland History
This resource is a web-based guide based on comprehensive research in Australian archives and libraries of published sources for the study of the History of North Queensland.
Research, Reconcile, Renew
Return, Reconcile Renew is a major research ongoing initiative, funded to date by the Australian Research Council. It has several aims, the most important of which is the application of various e-research techniques to provenance research, primarily to assist the repatriation of the bodily remains of Old People by Indigenous Australian communities.
Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Contexts of Settler Colonialism
I have an ongoing research interest in the theft and scientific uses of the bodily remains of Indigenous peoples in contexts of settler colonial colonialism. My 2017-18 book, Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia explains how and why skulls and other bodily structures of Indigenous Australians became the focus of scientific curiosity about the nature and origins of human diversity from the early years of colonisation in the late eighteenth century to Australia achieving nationhood at the turn of the twentieth century.
South Seas
South Seas was created by Chris Blackall and myself, with the assistance of Christine Winter and funding by the Australian Research Council. The original version of the site is archived by the National Library of Australia. Here you will find version 2.0 - which is being completed when I can find time from other research and writing projects.