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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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The Indomitable Mr Cotham - Missioner, Convict Chaplain & Monk See details
The Indomitable Mr Cotham - Missioner, Convict Chaplain & Monk
The Benedictine monk, James Ambrose Cotham, served more than 15 years in Van Diemen's Land in a period the colony began its transition from penal colony to free statehood.
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The Isle of the Dead, Port Arthur See details
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 See details
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 Last Ladies – Female Convicts Transported on the Duchess of Northumberland 1852–1853 | Christine Woods | 2004 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
The Last Ladies – Female Convicts Transported on the Duchess of Northumberland 1852–1853 | Christine Woods | 2004 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A history of the female convicts transported from England to Van Diemen's Land aboard the Duchess of Northumberland in 1852–1853 — the last convict ship to bring female prisoners to Tasmania before transportation to the colony ended. The book documents the women themselves — who they were, what brought them to transportation, and what happened to them after arrival in a colony where convict transportation was already winding down.

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The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens - used See details
The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens - used
How the British Empire turned artful dodgers into child killers.
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The Master of Hell’s Gates See details
The Master of Hell’s Gates
Captain William Kinghorne (1796 - 1878) navigated some of the most treacherous waters in the world.
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The Men That God Forgot - hardcover See details
The Men That God Forgot - hardcover
The Men That God Forgot is a Tasmanian historical novel based on the true hell of a Van Diemen's Land convict camp on Sarah Island, and ten men who made a desperate bid for freedom.
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The Men That God Forgot - softcover [Fiction] See details
The Men That God Forgot - softcover [Fiction]

Historical fiction based on the real hell of a Van Diemen's convict camp and ten men who made a desperate bid for freedom.

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The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price - A voyage from Cork, Ireland to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800 See details
The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price - A voyage from Cork, Ireland to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800

John Washington Price was just 21, and recently graduated from Dublin's College of Surgeons, when he sailed as ship's surgeon aboard the transport Minerva from Cork to Sydney in 1799, carrying 200 convicts. Many were United Irishmen transported for their role in the 1798 Rebellion, including the rebel leader General Joseph Holt.

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The Penal Settlement of Macquarie Harbour - outline of history |Hans Julen|Signed| See details
The Penal Settlement of Macquarie Harbour - outline of history |Hans Julen|Signed|

This outline of the history of the Macquarie Harbour penal settlement covers its founding on Sarah Island in 1822 as a place of banishment for the colony's most difficult convicts, its eleven-year reputation as one of the harshest penal settlements in the Australian colonies, and notable escapes including those of Matthew Brady and Alexander Pearce.

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