Book Chapters
Fforde, Cressida, Ormond-Parker, Lyndon and Turnbull, Paul (2015). Repatriation research: archives and the recovery of history and heritage. In Ruth Redmond-Cooper (Ed.), Heritage, ancestry and law: principles, policies and practices in dealing with historical human remains (pp. 39-59) London, United Kingdom: Institute of Art and Law.
Turnbull, Paul (2014). Margins, mainstreams and the mission of digital humanities. In Paul Longley Arthur and Katherine Bode (Ed.), Advancing digital humanities: research, methods, theories (pp. 258-273) Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137337016.0024
Turnbull, Paul (2013). Das indigene Australien im ersten Jahrhundert der europaeischen Invasion. In Hermann Mückler, Gabriele Weichart and Friedrich Edelmayer (Ed.), Australien: 18. bis 21. Jahrhundert. Geschichte und Gesellschaft (pp. 87-100) Wien, Austria: Promedia-Verlag.
Turnbull, Paul (2011). A judicious collector: Edward Charles Stirling and the procurement of Aboriginal bodily remains in South Australia, c. 1880-1912. In Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde (Ed.), The body divided: Human beings and human 'material' in modern medical history (pp. 109-130) Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing.
Turnbull, Paul (2010). The Vermillion Accord and the significance of the history of the scientific procurement and use of Indigenous Australian bodily remains. In Paul Turnbull, Michael Pickering, Mary Bouquet and Howard Morphy (Ed.), The Long Way Home: The Meaning and Values of Repatriation (pp. 117-134) Oxford, U.K.: Berghahn Books.
Turnbull, Paul (2010). Introduction. In Paul Turnbull and Michael Pickering (Ed.), The Long Journey Home: the meanings and Values of Repatriation (pp. 1-14) Oxford, England: Berghahn Books.
Turnbull, Paul (2009). The chief mourner's costume: Religion and political change in the Society Islands, 1768-73. In Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy (Ed.), Discovering Cook's collections (pp. 41-57) Canberra, Australia: National Museum of Australia Press.
Turnbull, Paul (2008). British anthropological thought in colonial practice: The appropriation of Indigenous Australian bodies, 1860-1880. In Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard (Ed.), Foreign bodies: Oceania and the science of race 1750-1940 (pp. 205-228) Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press.
Turnbull, Paul, Kornbluh, Mark and Shell-Weiss, Melanie (2006). Alternatives to pay-for-view: The case for open access to historical research and scholarship. In Cushla Kapitzke and C. Bruce Bertram (Ed.), Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice (pp. 211-228) Mahwah, New Jersey, United States: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
Journal Articles
Turnbull, Paul (2016) Managing and mapping the history of collecting indigenous human remains. The Australian Library Journal, 65 3: 203-212. doi:10.1080/00049670.2016.1207714
Turnbull, Paul (2015) Anthropological collecting and colonial violence in colonial Queensland: a response to 'the blood and the bone'. Journal of Australian Colonial History, 17 133-158.
Turnbull, Paul (2015) The aims of Big History. History Compass, 13 7: 349-358. doi:10.1111/hic3.12242
Turnbull, Paul (2015) Australian Museums, Aboriginal Skeletal Remains, and the Imagining of Human Evolutionary History, c. 1860-1914. Museum and Society, 13 1: 72-87.
Turnbull, Paul (2013) Clark Lawlor, From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression. Health and History, 15 2: 125-127. doi:10.5401/healthhist.15.2.0125
Turnbull, Paul (2012) Global in scope, scientific in spirit: the challenges of big history. The History Teacher eJournal, 50 3: .
Turnbull, Paul (2012) The ‘Aboriginal’ Australian brain in the scientific imagination, c. 1820–1880. Somatechnics, 2 2: 171-197. doi:10.3366/soma.2012.0056
Turnbull, Paul (2010) James Cook's hundred days in Queensland. Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes, 2009-10 .
Turnbull, Paul (2010) Captain Cook: Voyager between two worlds. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 56 3: 465-466. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8497.2010.01566.x
Turnbull, Paul (2010) Historians, computing and the World-Wide-Web. Australian Historical Studies, 41 2: 131-148. doi:10.1080/10314611003713629
Turnbull, Paul (2010) Aphrodite's Island: the European discovery of Tahiti. Journal of Pacific History, 45 3: 375-375. doi:10.1080/00223344.2010.530820
Turnbull, Paul (2007) Scientific theft of remains in colonial Australia - A postscript. Australian Indigenous Law Review, 11 2: 72-73.
Turnbull, Paul (2007) Scientific theft of remains in colonial Australia. Australian Indigenous Law Review, 11 1: 92-104.
Turnbull, Paul (2006) British anatomists, phrenologists and the construction of the Aboriginal Race, c.1790–1830. History Compass, 5 1: 26-50. doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00367.x/abstract
Dataset Collection
Turnbull, Paul (2013): Paper Miner: Geo-Temporal Indexes for Australian Newspapers Online. The University of Queensland. Collection. doi:10.14264/uql.2017.23
Creative Works
Turnbull, Paul (2013) PaperMiner v1.0. Eveleigh, NSW, Australia, Smart Services CRC.
Turnbull, Paul (2013) Guide to sources for north Queensland history. Parkville, VIC, Australia, Melbourne University.