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Urchin Convicts - the Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land
Added: Jun 5, 2025
 
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In the early 19th century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over 2000 boys were transported from the streets of London to the Point Puer Boys Establishment at Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s Land.

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Brady Van Diemen's Land 1824-1827
Added: Jul 7, 2025
 
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Bushrangers in Van Diemen's Land 1824-1827 from James Calder's text of 1873 together with newly discovered manuscripts, edited by Eustace Fitzsymonds.

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Convicts in the Colonies
 
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Transportation tales from Britain to Australia. In the 80 years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported 'beyond the seas'. This is a USED book.

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Convicts of the Fingal Valley
 
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A history of the convicts at Tasmania's Fingal Valley probation stations - Fingal, St Mary's Pass, Falmouth barracks.

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Convicts Unbound - signed
 
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The story of the convicts from the transportation ship Calcutta, and their settlement in Australia.

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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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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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