
Publications
Books
Turnbull, Paul (2017). Science, museums and collecting the Indigenous dead in colonial Australia. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9
(2010). The long way home: the meaning and values of repatriation. New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books.
Book Chapters
Turnbull, Paul (2020). Legally acquired? The moral and legal context of collecting Indigenous Australian human remains in colonial Australia. The great laboratory of humanity: collection, patrimony and the repatriation of human remains. (pp. 235-270) edited by Milicia, Maria Teresa. Padua, Italy: CLEUP sc.
Aranui, Amber, Fforde, Cressida, Pickering, Michael, Turnbull, Paul, Knapman, Gareth and Keeler, Honor (2020). ‘Under the Hammer’: The role of auction houses and dealers in the distribution of indigenous ancestral remains. The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation: Return, Reconcile, Renew. (pp. 335-360) Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203730966-20
Fforde, Cressida, Aranui, Amber, Knapman, Gareth and Turnbull, Paul (2020). ‘Inhuman and very mischievous traffic’: early measures to cease the export of ancestral remains from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation: Return, Reconcile, Renew. (pp. 381-399) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203730966-22
Turnbull, Paul (2020). Collecting and colonial violence. The Routledge companion to Indigenous repatriation. (pp. 452-468) edited by Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203730966-27
Turnbull, Paul (2020). The ethics of repatriation. The Routledge companion to Indigenous repatriation. (pp. 927-939) edited by Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203730966-60
Fforde, Cressida, Turnbull, Paul, Carter, Neil and Aranui, Amber (2020). Missionaries and the removal, illegal export, and return of ancestral remains: the case of Father Ernst Worms. The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation: Return, Reconcile, Renew. (pp. 316-334) edited by Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203730966-19
Knapman, Gareth, Turnbull, Paul and Fforde, Cressida (2020). Provenance research and historical sources for understanding Nineteenth-century scientific interest in Indigenous human remains: the scholarly journals and popularscience media. The Routledge companion to Indigenous repatriation: Return, Reconcile, Renew. (pp. 564-582) edited by Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203730966-34
Aranui, Amber, Fforde, Cressida, Pickering, Michael, Turnbull, Paul, Knapman, Gareth and Keeler, Honor (2020). ‘Under The Hammer’, the role of auction houses and dealers in the distribution of Indigenous Ancestral Remains. The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation: Return, Reconcile, Renew. (pp. 335-360) edited by Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler. Abingdon, Oxon, U.K.: Routledge.
Turnbull, Paul (2019). Pitt Rivers museum. Encyclopedia of global archaeology. (pp. 1-2) Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2657-1
Turnbull, Paul (2019). Pitt-Rivers. Encyclopedia of global archaeology. (pp. 1-3) Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2656-1
Turnbull, Paul (2018). Digitally analysing colonial collecting – the return, reconcile, renew project. Provenienzforschung zu ethnografischen Sammlungen der Kolonialzeit [Provenance research on ethnographic collections from the colonial era]. (pp. 103-115) edited by Larissa Forster, Iris Edenheiser, Sarah Fruend and Heike Hartmann. Berlin, Germany: Arbeitsgruppe Museum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie.
Fforde, Cressida, Ormond-Parker, Lyndon and Turnbull, Paul (2015). Repatriation research: archives and the recovery of history and heritage. Heritage, ancestry and law: principles, policies and practices in dealing with historical human remains. (pp. 39-59) edited by Ruth Redmond-Cooper. London, United Kingdom: Institute of Art and Law.
Turnbull, Paul (2014). Margins, mainstreams and the mission of digital humanities. Advancing digital humanities: research, methods, theories. (pp. 258-273) edited by Paul Longley Arthur and Katherine Bode. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137337016.0024
Turnbull, Paul (2013). Das indigene Australien im ersten Jahrhundert der europaeischen Invasion. Australien: 18. bis 21. Jahrhundert. Geschichte und Gesellschaft. (pp. 87-100) edited by Hermann Mückler, Gabriele Weichart and Friedrich Edelmayer. 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. The body divided: Human beings and human 'material' in modern medical history. (pp. 109-130) edited by Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing.
Turnbull, Paul (2010). Introduction. The Long Journey Home: the meanings and Values of Repatriation. (pp. 1-14) edited by Paul Turnbull and Michael Pickering. Oxford, England: Berghahn Books.
Turnbull, Paul (2010). The Vermillion Accord and the significance of the history of the scientific procurement and use of Indigenous Australian bodily remains. The Long Way Home: The Meaning and Values of Repatriation. (pp. 117-134) edited by Paul Turnbull, Michael Pickering, Mary Bouquet and Howard Morphy. Oxford, U.K.: Berghahn Books.
Turnbull, Paul (2009). The chief mourner's costume: Religion and political change in the Society Islands, 1768-73. Discovering Cook's collections. (pp. 41-57) edited by Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy. Canberra, Australia: National Museum of Australia Press.
Turnbull, Paul (2008). British anthropological thought in colonial practice: The appropriation of Indigenous Australian bodies, 1860-1880. Foreign bodies: Oceania and the science of race 1750-1940. (pp. 205-228) edited by Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard. 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. Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice. (pp. 211-228) edited by Cushla Kapitzke and C. Bruce Bertram. Mahwah, New Jersey, United States: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates. doi: 10.4324/9780203928639
Journal Articles
Turnbull, Paul (2022). ‘Thrown into the fossil gap’: Indigenous Australian ancestral bodily remains in the hands of early Darwinian anatomists, c. 1860–1916. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 92, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.12.010
Turnbull, Paul (2020). International repatriations of Indigenous human remains and its complexities: the Australian experience. Museum and Society, 18 (1), 6-18. doi: 10.29311/mas.v18i1.3246
Kutty, Sangeetha, Nayak, Richi, Turnbull, Paul, Chernich, Ron, Kennedy, Gavin and Raymond, Kerry (2019). PaperMiner—a real-time spatiotemporal visualization for newspaper articles. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 35 (1), 83-100. doi: 10.1093/llc/fqy084
Turnbull, Paul (2018). German-Australian research on a difficult legacy: colonial collections of Indigenous human remains in German museums and collections. German-Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers: Global Dynamics in Transnational Lands, 179-191. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-6599-6_12
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). The aims of Big History. History Compass, 13 (7), 349-358. doi: 10.1111/hic3.12242
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). 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 and Turnball, Paul (2010). Reviewed work: Body and Mind. Historical Essays in Honour of F.B. Smith by Graeme Davison, Pat Jalland, Wilfrid Prest. Health and History, 12 (1), 126-128. doi: 10.5401/healthhist.12.1.126
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
Conference Papers
Turnbull, Paul (2016). Visually analysing colonial entrepreneurship, architecture and science. Globalisation, entrepreneurship and the South Pacific: reframing Australian colonial architecture, 1800-1850, Hobart, Tasmania, 17 - 18 October, 2016. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: RMIT Press.
Paul Turnbull and Mark Fallu (2008). Beyond South Seas: Making History in Networked Digital Technologies. eResearch Australasia 2008, Melbourne, Australia, 28 September - 3 October 2008.
Data Collection
Turnbull, Paul (2013). Paper Miner: Geo-Temporal Indexes for Australian Newspapers Online. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/436c5fb
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). Guide to sources for north Queensland history. Parkville, VIC, Australia: Melbourne University.
Turnbull, Paul (2013). PaperMiner v1.0. Eveleigh, NSW, Australia: Smart Services CRC.