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Convicts Unbound - signed, numbered, special binding
 
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The story of the convicts transported from England on the ship Calcutta and the history of their settlement in the Australian colonies. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Corruption and Skullduggery - Edward Lord, Maria Riseley, and Hobart's tempestuous beginnings
 
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Award winning historian, Alison Alexander, turns her attention to Hobart's tempestuous beginnings and the part played by two quite different personalities, Edward Lord and Maria Riseley.

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Crime, Punishment and Redemption - a Norfolk Island convict's life
 
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This is perhaps the only extant diary ever written during the Australian penal era whilst its convict writer was imprisoned. John Ward, writing whilst incarcerated on Norfolk Island but formerly a groom to an officer gentleman, tells a story of thwarted love that he claims led him to a life of crime including theft, sexual assault and more. In telling the candid story of his downfall he exposes his own ruthlessness and lack of empathy. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Dear Cousin - The Reiby Letters
 
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"Dear Cousin - The Reiby(sic) Letters" is a compilation of 22 letters of renowned female convict and subsequently successful Van Diemen's Land business woman Mary Reibey, her children and their descendants written between 1792 and 1901.

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Doing Time
 
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Crooks, craftsmen and founding citizens - stories of convict clock and watchmakers in Van Diemen's Land.

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Exiled - the Port Arthur convict photographs
 
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Taken shortly before the infamous Tasmanian penal settlement of Port Arthur closed for good, these images record the faces of men sent to Australia on convict ships between the 1820s and the 1850s.

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Exiled Three Times Over!
 
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Profiles of Norfolk Islanders exiled in Van Diemen's Land 1807-13.

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Female Factory Female Convicts
 
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The story of the more than 13,000 women exiled from Britain to Van Diemen's Land as transported convicts.

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Flash Jim
 
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The story of James Hardy Vaux, convict and writer of Australia's first dictionary. If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly' or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a an Australian colonial convict of old.

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Floating Prisons - Irish Convict Hulks and Voyages to New South Wales 1823-1837
 
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Looking deeply into Ireland's penal administration, divided society, and the convict voyages, Anne McMahon draws conclusions that will change many assumptions about Australia, Ireland and the British Empire.

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