Ashley Barnwell

From the Inside: Indigenous-SettlerReflections on the Family uses of the Thomas Dick ‘Birrpai’ Photographic Collection 1910–1920

J Heath, A Barnwell

Journal article  |  2023  |  Life Writing

In the settler colonial context, family histories can be key places to explore the relations between Indigenous and settler famili..

Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family and the "familia-graphic" gaze

Joseph Cummins, Ashley Barnwell

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING

In Running in the Family Michael Ondaatje plays the “family history detective” as he searches for his ancestry in Sri Lanka. This ..

Aunting as Family Shadow-Work

Ashley Barnwell

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF FAMILY HISTORY

Women have long been known as family kin-keepers, sources of knowledge about family histories. Yet little has been written on the ..

Keeping the Nation’s Secrets: “Colonial Storytelling” within Australian Families

Ashley Barnwell

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Family History

Recent studies of the genealogy craze focus on how family historians appeal to ancestors to fashion their own identities, but prac..

Family Secrets

Ashley Barnwell

Book Chapter  |  2021

This book accompanies an exhibition of the same title staged at Bus Projects, Melbourne, in August 2021.Triangulating themes--rewr..

Writing Family, Writing Nation in 1988: Inside the National Library of Australia’s Self-Published Family History Collection

Ashley Barnwell

Book Chapter  |  2021

This chapter examines how people researching their ancestry do the ‘work of remembering’ by writing and depositing their family hi..

Captured and captioned: Representing family life on Instagram

Ashley Barnwell, Barbara Barbosa Neves, Signe Ravn

Journal article  |  2021  |  NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY

This article examines how practices of family photography are being transformed in the digital sphere, specifically on Instagram. ..

Unlocking Family Secrets

Ashley Barnwell

Media  |  2020

What is ‘publicly available data’? Exploring blurred public-private boundaries and ethical practices through a case study on Instagram

Signe Ravn, Ashley Barnwell, Barbara Barbosa Neves

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

This article adds to the literature on ethics in digital research by problematizing simple understandings of what constitutes “pub..

Family History Collaborators in Conversation

Ashley Barnwell, Laura King

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Public History

Ashley Barnwell and Laura King converse about their collaborations with family historians in Australia and England. They reveal th..