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Maria Island History and Landscapes 1825-1930
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A history of Maria Island's recent past structured around four key touchstones: the two phases of convict occupation during the Penal Period 1825-32 and the Probation Period 1842-52; the optimistic tenure of the Bernacchi Period 1884-96; and the resource exploitation of the Industrial Period 1920-30.

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Mortmain - Facsimile collection of documents from Van Diemen's Land convict colony
 
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Mortmain - A collection of choice petitions, memorials and letters of protest and request from the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land; written by divers persons, both eminent and lowly, and collected and transcribed from the originals by Eustace FitzSymonds, with numerous pages of the manuscripts shewn in facsimile. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Point Puer... the boys' prison of Port Arthur
 
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A history of Point Puer at Port Arthur convict settlement, Van Diemen's Land - the first exclusive boys prison in the British Empire.

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Ten Rogues - the unlikely story of convict schemers, a stolen brig and an escape from Van Diemen's Land
 
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A band of convicts, a scoundrel by the name of Jimmy Porter, a stolen brig and a daring plan for escape.


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To Hell or to Hobart
 
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The story of an Irish convict couple - Stephen Howard and Ellen Lydon - transported to Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania in the 1840s.

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William Cawston - Convict Boy to Colonial Photographer 1827-1916 - hardcover
 
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A tribute to one of Australia's lesser known pioneer photographers - the ex-convict William Cawston.

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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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Van Diemen's Women - A History of Transportation to Tasmania
 
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An in-depth account of what life was like for a woman transported from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and how a Draconian punishment for some became a life saving measure.

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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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The Sherburds
 
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A history of the Sherburds - a family of Van Diemen's Land pioneers, whalers and master mariners descended from convicts and Norfolk Island settlers.

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Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls
 
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Convict women in Van Diemen's Land 1803-1829

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