Shauna Bostock ”Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories”

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Shauna Bostock chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• The shocking late-night phone Shauna Bostock received that ignited her determination to unearth her family’s true history.
• How Shauna traced over 200 years of her Indigenous family history amid scant and fragmented records.
• Shauna’s unique approach to storytelling: blending biography, history, memoir and oral storytelling.
• How Shauna balanced being a rigorous historian and a loving descendant.
• How Shauna alternated between close-up personal scenes and wide-angle historical context.
• Why Shauna Bostock sees her book as part of Australia’s broader truth-telling movement, an effort to openly acknowledge Indigenous history and the injustices of the past.