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Urchin Convicts - the Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land
Added: Jun 5, 2025
 
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In the early 19th century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over 2000 boys were transported from the streets of London to the Point Puer Boys Establishment at Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s Land.

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From the Proteus to Prosperity
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In the steps of John Walduck (1809-1886); a convict family history.

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Brady Van Diemen's Land 1824-1827
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Bushrangers in Van Diemen's Land 1824-1827 from James Calder's text of 1873 together with newly discovered manuscripts, edited by Eustace Fitzsymonds.

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Breakout! The Tasmanian aboriginals who terrorised Victoria in the early 1840s.

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Cleansing the Colony
 
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The little known story of the more than one hundred people transported from New Zealand to Van Diemen's Land.

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Closing Hell's Gates - the death of a convict station
 
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Based on an elaborate reconstruction of day-to-day life at Macquarie Harbour, one of Australia's most notorious sites of convict punishment, this is the true story of how, in 1827, nine convicts opted for 'state-assisted' escape (the death sentence) rather than endure the hardships and privations of the penal settlement on Sarah Island.

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Compelled to Tiers
 
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The gripping true account of an escaped convict's survival amidst the wilderness of 19th century Tasmania - bushranger, Daniel Priest.

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Convict Colony
 
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Convict Colony - the remarkable story of the fledgling settlement at Sydney that survived against the odds.

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Convict Lives - Mothers' trials and triumphs
 
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The latest in the series of Tasmanian histories focusing on the lives of female convicts in Van Diemen's Land.

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Convict Lives - Young Girls Transported to Van Diemen's Land
 
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Jane Smith, aged thirteen, was transported as a convict to Van Diemen’s Land for arson. Mary Ann Oseman was nine when she served her first jail sentence for theft, and was transported aged twelve. Mary Ann Little had been a prostitute for four years before being transported at fifteen.

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Convict Lives at Cascades Female Factory - used
 
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The lives and stories of 33 women who spent time at the Cascades Female Factory.

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Convict Lives at the Cascades Female Factory Volume 2
 
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The stories of 29 female convicts who spent time at Hobart's Cascades Female Factory.

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Convict Lives at the George Town Female Factory
 
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The stories of women who were sent to the first 'female factory" in the north of Tasmania.

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