History

A facsimile of George Hamilton's 1793 account of the voyage of HMS Pandora — the Royal Navy frigate sent to arrest the Bounty mutineers in the South Seas. Hamilton was the ship's surgeon and the only eyewitness to publish a full contemporary account of the voyage.

Between 1841 and 1853, nearly 250 women were transported from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land for committing arson, a number out of all proportion to males transported for the same offence. Renowned Tasmanian historian Dianne Snowden explains why so many women resorted to arson as a desperate survival mechanism during the Great Famine, explores their motives, and follows their lived experiences both as convicts in the factory system and subsequently when set free in the colony.