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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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Australia's Birthstain - used hardcover
The startling legacy of the convict era - Babette Smith's groundbreaking history of convicts in Australia, which lays bare the distortions and myths that caused the nation to deny its own past.

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Black Convicts
A history of how black slaves as convicts shaped Australia - uncovering hidden links to slavery.

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Bound for Australia
A guide to the records held by The National Archives in the UK of transported convicts and early settlers to the Australian colonies.

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Brady – Bushrangers in Van Diemen's Land 1824–1827 | James Calder (ed. Eustace Fitzsymonds) | 1979 | Limited Edition 267/750 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

The most comprehensive account of the Matthew Brady gang and associated bushrangers active in Van Diemen's Land between 1824 and 1827, drawn from James Calder's original 1873 text together with newly discovered manuscripts, edited by Eustace Fitzsymonds and published by Sullivan's Cove, Hobart in 1979.


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

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Chain Letters - Narrating convict lives
Narrating convict lives - Australian history.

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

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