Tiffany Shellam

About The Author

Tiffany Shellam lectures in History at Deakin University. She works collaboratively with Noongar people and historians, museum curators, archivists and librarians to critique the archives, unearthing hidden and alternative histories generated by encounters between Indigenous people and European explorers and setters in the early nineteenth century. Her first book, Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal world at King George’s Sound, was published by UWA Publishing in 2009.

Books by Tiffany Shellam

Meeting the Waylo

Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago

By Tiffany Shellam
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Shaking Hands on the Fringe

Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George's Sound

By Tiffany Shellam
In 1826 the British set up a garrison on the edges of an Aboriginal world at King George’s Sound, the site of present day Albany, Western Australia, with the aim of deterring the French from occupying the area. The British newcomers and the area’s Indigenous inhabitants, the King Ya-nup, came to ...
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