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Black Convicts
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A history of how black slaves as convicts shaped Australia - uncovering hidden links to slavery.
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The Wreck of the Neva See details
The Wreck of the Neva
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The horrifying fate of a convict ship and the Irish women aboard.
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Breakout! See details
Breakout!
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Breakout! The Tasmanian aboriginals who terrorised Victoria in the early 1840s.
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Doing Time See details
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 See details
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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Female Factory Female Convicts See details
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 See details
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 See details
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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For Better or Worse See details
For Better or Worse
 
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For Better or Worse is a book describing 88 convict lives shaped by transportation to Van Diemen's Land, NSW or Western Australia, with facial images created using computer technology in the early 2000s.
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From the Edges of Empire - Convict Women from Beyond the British Isles See details
From the Edges of Empire - Convict Women from Beyond the British Isles
 
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Remarkable stories of convict women transported to Australia who were born or tried outside the British Isles.
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Gaolbird - the true story of William Swallow Convict & Pirate See details
Gaolbird - the true story of William Swallow Convict & Pirate
 
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This children's picture story book tells the outrageous and unbelievable true story of a convict pirate named Swallow from Simon Barnard, the 2015 CBCA winner of A-Z Convicts in Van Diemen's Land.
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Hell's Gates See details
Hell's Gates
 
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A modern take on the the life and legend of notorious Tasmanian convict, Alexander Pearce.
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James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang See details
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang
 
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In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by re-offending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intentions. In 1819, convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with this dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts.
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