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Mary Proctor - Convict, Pioneer and Settler
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The true story of Mary Procter, a female convict transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1820s.

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Letters of An Irish Patriot
Added: Mar 12, 2026
 
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The letters of Irish exile William Paul Dowling, who established himself as an artist and photographer after being transported to Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania for sedition in 1848.

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The Journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth
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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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Breakout!
 
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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 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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Convict Lives at the Launceston Female Factory
 
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The story of the female convicts who lived and worked at the Launceston Female Factory.

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