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.
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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Breakout!
Breakout! The Tasmanian aboriginals who terrorised Victoria in the early 1840s.
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Buckley's Chance – William Buckley and How He Conquered a New World | Garry Linnell | 2020 [SC]
In 1803, William Buckley escaped from a British convict settlement at Port Phillip Bay and disappeared into the Australian bush. He was found 32 years later — barefoot, dressed in animal skins, carrying a spear, and having largely forgotten the English language. In between, he had lived with the Wathaurong people of what is now Victoria.
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Catherine McMahon - A remarkable convict woman
Irish-born Catherine McMahon was transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1849 aboard the convict ship Australasia. This meticulously researched biography follows her life before and after conviction, along with the lives of her two husbands, both also convicts.
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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
The true story of nine Sarah Island convicts who chose execution over continued imprisonment at Macquarie Harbour in 1827. Softcover, 2008, 312 pages, indexed.
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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]")
![Brady – Bushrangers in Van Diemen's Land 1824–1827 | James Calder (ed. Eustace Fitzsymonds) | 1979 | Limited Edition 267/750 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/brady-van-diemens-land-62Dqcl.png "Brady – Bushrangers in Van Diemen's Land 1824–1827 | James Calder (ed. Eustace Fitzsymonds) | 1979 | Limited Edition 267/750 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]")
![Buckley's Chance – William Buckley and How He Conquered a New World | Garry Linnell | 2020 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/buckleys-chance-zfeIdn.png "Buckley's Chance – William Buckley and How He Conquered a New World | Garry Linnell | 2020 [SC]")
