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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] See details
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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Convicts

Books covering Tasmania's convict era – transportation, penal settlements such as Port Arthur and Sarah Island, convict ships and records, and the individual stories of convicts sent to Van Diemen's Land. A well-used section for family historians researching convict ancestors, as well as general readers interested in this defining chapter of Tasmania's past.

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Robert Lyall - The King of Westbury See details
Robert Lyall - The King of Westbury

A Tasmanian biography and family history capturing the life and work of Richard Lyall, transported to Van Diemen's Land as a convict, and subsequently owner of the Westbury Inn.

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Sarah Island - used See details
Sarah Island - used
An account of the convict settlements of Sarah Island, west coast Tasmania from 1822-1832 and 1846-1847.
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Sarah's Story See details
Sarah's Story
A convict's tale of strength and resilience for younger readers.
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Shadow Over Tasmania - the truth about the State's convicts See details
Shadow Over Tasmania - the truth about the State's convicts

Coultman Smith's history of Tasmania's convicts, first published in 1941 and reprinted many times since. Softcover, 1993, 24th impression, 150 pages, illustrated.

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Some Notes on Maria Island and its Penal Settlements See details
Some Notes on Maria Island and its Penal Settlements

Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast, operated as a convict penal settlement from 1825 to 1832 — established to ease overcrowding at Hobart — before closing due to frequent escapes and reopening as a probation station from 1842 to 1850. Darlington, at the island's north, is today regarded as the most intact surviving example of a convict probation station in Australia, and is UNESCO World Heritage-listed as part of the Australian Convict Sites.

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Steps to the Scaffold - The Untold Story of Tasmania's Black Bushrangers - Robert Cox See details
Steps to the Scaffold - The Untold Story of Tasmania's Black Bushrangers - Robert Cox

Steps to the Scaffold traces the campaigns of Tasmania's Aboriginal bushrangers - among them Musquito, Black Tom Birch, Black Jack, Black Dick, Pevay and Timmy - through the lead-up to the Black War of 1826-31 and its individual figures' own stories.

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Sullivan Bay See details
Sullivan Bay
How the convict settlement intended for Port Phillip was moved to Van Diemen's Land.
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Tasmania v. British Empire See details
Tasmania v. British Empire

A history of the battle to end convict transportation from Britain to Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania.

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Tasmania's Convicts - hardcover See details
Tasmania's Convicts - hardcover
While the public stigma of its convict past has given way to a contemporary fascination with colonial history, in Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander debates whether the convict past lingers deep in the psyche of white Tasmania.
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Tasmania's Convicts – How Felons Built a Free Society | Alison Alexander | 2014 [NEW – SC] See details
Tasmania's Convicts – How Felons Built a Free Society | Alison Alexander | 2014 [NEW – SC]

Alison Alexander's accessible history of Tasmania's convict era — covering the transportation system, the convicts who came, the work they did, and how Van Diemen's Land transformed from a penal colony into a free society over the course of the 19th century.

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