Written pieces


2024

In press: ‘Visualising Exploration’, in Gayle Brunelle (ed), A Cultural History of Exploration: Volume 4 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)

2023

Meehan’s Mapping of the Derwent River in Van Diemen’s Land, 1803-04’, Australian Historical Studies, 54(4), pp. 772–793.

Five lessons from teaching family history to older students online’, History Australia, 20(2), pp. 290-305.

2022

‘The genealogy of an error: exploring Sidney Hall’s 1828 map of Van Diemen’s Land’, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 69(3), pp. 29–35.

‘Anything but common: why Van Diemen’s Land never had commons’, Landscape History, 43(1), pp. 87–104.

‘Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism: by Jarrod Hore, University of California Press, Oakland, 2022’, Journal of Australian Studies (Book review).

‘Review: Time Layered Cultural Map’, Reviews in Digital Humanities, 3 (11) (Review).

2021

Love It? Hate It? It’s Still Tasmania’s History’, Public History Weekly, 9 (7), 9 September.

How Early Australian Settlers Drew Maps to Erase Indigenous People and Push Ideas of Colonial Superiority’, The Conversation, 27 May.

Public History in Tasmania’, entry for Australia and Aotearoa NZ Public History Network blog, 16 May.

A Belgian Farmer Moved a Rock and Accidentally Annexed France: the Weird and Wonderful History of Man-Made Borders’, The Conversation, 6 May.

2020

“A truly sublime appearance”: using GIS to find the traces of pre-colonial landscapes and land use’, History Australia, 17(1), pp. 59–86

“Understanding Colonial Maps.” Traces Magazine, 13, December, pp. 39–41.

‘On Paper, on Screen, on Site: Family History in the 21st Century’, Traces Magazine, 10, March, pp. 37–38

Surviving the Conference Marathon’, entry for The Thesis Whisperer blog, 10 July.

How to… Be A Tour Guide’, entry for Australian Historical Association Early Career Researchers blog, 15 February.

2018    

Profitable and Unprofitable Acres : Patterns of European Expansion across Van Diemen’s Land, 1803-35.” PhD thesis, University of Tasmania.

The Road to Here: Rivers were the Highways of Australia’s Colonial History’, The Conversation, 2 October.

Water wise: how rivers shaped a colony’, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 65(3), pp. 45–60

Illustrative maps in Susan Scott (ed.), From the Proteus to Prosperity: in the Steps of John Walduck (1809-1886) (NSW).

2017 

Casual Expansion by Land Grantees in Van Diemen’s Land’, Tasmanian Historical Studies, 22, pp. 1–17

‘A home for everyone? Property ownership has been about status and wealth since our convict days’, The Conversation, 12 September 2017

2016    

Common-Edge Drift in Norfolk’, Norfolk Archaeology, XLVII (iii), pp. 356–373

Wegman, Imogen, ‘Van Diemen’s LandScapes’, in Globalisation, Entrepreneurship and the South Pacific: Reframing Australian Colonial Architecture, 1800-1850, Hobart, 17-18 October 2016, pp. 66-71 (conference proceeding)


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