Abstract This paper examines the potential for the digital turn, particularly the extensive and ongoing digitisation of nineteenth-century newspapers, to enable scholars to rethink the experiences of individuals previously marginalised and hard to find in historical sources. The rapid digital turn in historical research has prompted scholars to argue for conversations in which to consider the implications of digital technologies in historical research practices. Yet in historical geography, though scholars work with and make digital data in a multitude of ways, there has been little formal reflection on the concerns, challenges or methodological opportunities presented by the formation of digital archives. To do so this paper takes as its focus ‘coloured’ workers employed in forms of domestic service at the end of the nineteenth century in Australia. Firstly, by resurfacing ‘coloured’ workers through their presence in newspaper advertisements the paper illustrates that digital methodologies enable the identification of individuals missed through previous forms of data analysis. Secondly, the paper seeks to illustrate how their reappearance can frame a rethinking of domestic labour and colonial identities, gender roles and the ethnic complexities of ‘coloured’ labour in the British Empire. The paper argues that though newspaper advertisements for employment are brief and impersonal, and their meanings, as mediated through form and time, are at times hard to decipher, gathering them together into a new archive supports a more complex reading of diversity across national, regional, local and imperial geographies.

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在数字档案中浮现出黑色和棕色的身体：19 世纪后期澳大利亚的家政工人

摘要 本文考察了数字转向的潜力，特别是 19 世纪报纸广泛和持续的数字化，使学者能够重新思考以前被边缘化且难以在历史资料中找到的个人的经历。历史研究中的快速数字化转向促使学者们争论讨论数字技术在历史研究实践中的影响。然而，在历史地理学中，尽管学者们以多种方式使用和制作数字数据，但很少有正式反思数字档案形成所带来的关注、挑战或方法论机遇。为此，本文以 19 世纪末在澳大利亚从事家政服务形式的“有色人种”工人为重点。首先，通过报纸广告中出现的“有色人种”工人，该论文说明了数字方法能够识别通过以前的数据分析形式遗漏的个人。其次，本文试图说明它们的再现如何能够重新思考大英帝国的家庭劳动力和殖民身份、性别角色和“有色人种”劳动力的种族复杂性。该报认为，虽然报纸上的招聘广告简短且没有人情味，但其含义以形式和时间为中介，有时难以解读，