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.
The Fatal Shore – A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787–1868 | Robert Hughes | 2003 [SC]
Robert Hughes's landmark history of convict transportation to Australia — from the First Fleet in 1787 through to the end of transportation in 1868. Hughes documented the full scale and brutality of the transportation system — the ships, the prisons, the assignment system, the floggings, the Norfolk Island hell and Port Arthur, and the lives of the men, women and children transported from Georgian Britain to the other side of the world.
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The Floating Brothel - used
The extraordinary history of the Lady Julian and its cargo of female convicts bound for Botany Bay.
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The Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land
The Forgotten Generation is a colonial history of Norfolk Island and Van Diemen’s Land that gives a picture of the individuals who made up the Norfolk Island population during the First Settlement with convicts, 1788–1814, and covers aspects of their lives.
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The Gardens of Hell
Irish patriot John Mitchel in Van Diemen's Land 1850-1853.
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The Isle of the Dead, Port Arthur
The identification of every stone on the Isle of the Dead at Port Arthur, on the Tasman Peninsula in Tasmania (formerly Van Diemen's Land) including nine previously unrecognised convict headstones.
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The Journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth
The 1787-1789 journal of the surgeon onboard the First Fleet convict transportation ship "Lady Penrhyn" - notable for the high survival rate of its more than 100 female prisoners.
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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]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/convict-and-the-compass-P6snPf.png "The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ]")
![The Evidence to the Bigge Reports – New South Wales Under Governor Macquarie | John Ritchie (Ed.) | 2-Volume Set | 1971 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/evidence-to-the-bigge-reports-8Sl6c5.png "The Evidence to the Bigge Reports – New South Wales Under Governor Macquarie | John Ritchie (Ed.) | 2-Volume Set | 1971 [USED – HCDJ]")
![The Fatal Shore – A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787–1868 | Robert Hughes | 2003 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/the-fatal-shore-softcover-gjm7So.png "The Fatal Shore – A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787–1868 | Robert Hughes | 2003 [SC]")
![The Last Ladies – Female Convicts Transported on the Duchess of Northumberland 1852–1853 | Christine Woods | 2004 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/the-last-ladies-PvDJdo.png "The Last Ladies – Female Convicts Transported on the Duchess of Northumberland 1852–1853 | Christine Woods | 2004 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
