About Barry Mcgowan
Barry McGowan (Ph.D, BA, ANU; B.Ec, Adelaide) is an historian and heritage consultant who specialises in mining history and heritage, and the history and heritage of the Chinese in Australia. He is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia.His heritage work has involved conservation management plans, reports and history writing for Commonwealth and State governments and local authorities. Barry’s publications include four books on mining communities in southern NSW, Lost Mines, Lost Mines Revisited, Bungonia to Braidwood and the Golden South. Other publications are Australian Ghost Towns (Lothian Books, 2002, reprinted 2004
Barry has also written extensively on the history and heritage of the Chinese people in Australia. Along with Dr Lindsay Smith, he completed a heritage study of the Chinese people in southern NSW and the Riverina for the NSW Heritage Office in 2008. Later that year Barry was commissioned by the Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga, NSW, to research and document an exhibition on the Chinese in the Riverina. The exhibition, 'Tracking the Dragon in the Riverina', opened in Wagga in December 2010 and in Albury, NSW in May 2011.
His next book will focus on the historical links between China and the Riverina district of NSW. The accompanying publication, 'Tracking the Dragon. A history of the Chinese in the Riverina' was published in December 2010. Barry's next publication will look more closely at the lives of the Chinese in the Riverina and elsewhere in rural and regional Australia, and their lives in China prior to emigration.
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