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From Fields of Stone
Added: Jun 6, 2026
The history of female convict Nappy King in famine Ireland & colonial Tasmania.

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The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ]
Added: Apr 17, 2026

James Meehan was sentenced at 26 for his role in an uprising against British rule in Ireland and arrived in Australia in 1800 as a convict servant to English explorer Charles Grimes. Through talent and persistence he rose to become Acting Surveyor General of the New South Wales colony, working under five governors from 1800 to 1822.


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To Hell or to Hobart – The Story of an Irish Convict Couple Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s | Patrick Howard | 1993 [HCDJ]
Added: Jul 8, 2026

Patrick Howard's account of his great-grandparents — Stephen Howard and Ellen Lydon — both transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and united in Hobart Town.


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A Brief History of Military Station at Eaglehawk Neck 1830-1877 – J.A. Fletcher (1952)

A scarce 8-page vintage regional pamphlet detailing the military outpost and convict "dog line" at Eaglehawk Neck.


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A Burglar's Life
or the stirring adventures of the great English burglar Mark Jeffrey, the story of Port Arthur's notorious grave digger of the Isle of the Dead.

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A Cargo of Women
Susannah Watson and the convicts of the Princess Royal - a history of women transported to Van Diemen's Land.


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A Drift of Derwent Ducks
A book about the lives of the 200 female Irish convicts transported on the Australasia from Dublin to Hobart, Van Diemen's Land in 1849.

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A Looking-Glass for Tasmania – Letters, Petitions and Manuscripts from Van Diemen's Land 1808–1845 | Eustace FitzSymonds | 1980 | Numbered 92/400 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

A collection of letters, petitions and other manuscripts relating to Van Diemen's Land between 1808 and 1845, transcribed by Eustace FitzSymonds and published by Sullivan's Cove, Hobart in 1980, with a number of original document leaves reproduced in facsimile.


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A Road in Van Diemen's Land – The Convict-Built Bell's Line of Road from the Derwent River to St Peter's Pass 1820–1824 | John Thompson | 2004 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

John Thompson's detailed history of Bell's Line of Road — the convict-built road surveyed and constructed through the Tasmanian Midlands between 1820 and 1824, connecting the Derwent River at New Norfolk northward through the Central Midlands to St Peter's Pass near the present-day township of Oatlands.


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A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land
A lavishly illustrated large format picture book that tells the story of Tasmania's convicts.

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Abandoned Women - Scottish Convicts in Van Diemen's Land
Abandoned Women - Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas s a rich and evocative account of the lives of women at the bottom of society two hundred years ago.

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Aboriginal Convicts - Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles
This book is about the 130 aboriginal convicts who were transported to and within the Australian penal colonies. They lived, laboured, were punished, and died alongside other convicts, but until this ground breaking book, their stories had largely been forgotten.

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Alexander Pearce Macquarie Harbour Convict Cannibal History

The definitive biographical history of Australia's most infamous convict cannibal and bushranger, Alexander Pearce. A meticulously researched account of the brutal 1822 Sarah Island escapes by Dan Sprod, complete in its original Cat & Fiddle Press dust jacket.


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