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Missing links: data stories from the archive of British settler colonial citizenship
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Bagnall, KJ and Sherratt, T, Missing links: data stories from the archive of British settler colonial citizenship, Journal of World History, 32, (2) pp. 281-300. ISSN 1045-6007 (2021) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1353/jwh.2021.0025
Abstract
Digitized sources and digital methods are changing the way that we do history. For historians
of the British Empire, the digital age offers new possibilities for investigating the lives of
those who moved around the empire and across the world. However, much discussion of the
possibilities and problems of digital history have focused on the creation and use of full text
resources, skipping over the analytical opportunities offered by the descriptive systems in
which those texts are embedded. This article is an attempt to fill this gap by documenting a
journey through archival data relating to nineteenth-century Chinese naturalization in the
Pacific Rim settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Canada. We argue that such data
stories are critical if we are to understand both possibilities and pitfalls of research in digital
collections.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | naturalisation, citizenship, digital history, archives, British Empire |
Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Historical studies |
Research Field: | Australian history |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Understanding past societies |
Objective Field: | Understanding Australia's past |
UTAS Author: | Bagnall, KJ (Dr Kate Bagnall) |
ID Code: | 141718 |
Year Published: | 2021 |
Deposited By: | History and Classics |
Deposited On: | 2020-11-12 |
Last Modified: | 2021-09-02 |
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