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.
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Convict Places – A Guide to Tasmanian Convict Heritage Sites | Michael Nash | 2020 [NEW – SC]
More than 74,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land — and they left their mark across the entire island. Michael Nash's guide takes the reader to Tasmania's convict heritage sites, both well-known and lesser-known, examining how each operated during the transportation era and what visitors will find there today.
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Convict Tattoos – Examining and Illustrating the Tattoos of Convict Men and Women | Simon Barnard | 2016 [HCDJ]
At least 37% of male convicts and 15% of female convicts were tattooed by the time they arrived in the Australian penal colonies — making 19th century Australia one of the most heavily tattooed English-speaking societies in the world. Simon Barnard's book draws on the convict records held by Australian archives — particularly the physical description books that colonial authorities used to record individual convicts' distinguishing marks — to document and illustrate what those tattoos actually looked like.
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Convict Words - used
Language in early colonial Australia.
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Convict-era Port Arthur
Convict-era Port Arthur - misery of the deepest dye - tells the fifty-year history of Port Arthur, one of the most remote and feared convict locations in colonial Australia, through the experiences of individuals who lived it. The author, David W. Cameron, draws on the words of convicts, soldiers and administrators to tell the story of Port Arthur's development, changing approaches to punishment, and eventual closure in 1877.
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Convicts in the Colonies
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
A history of the convicts at Tasmania's Fingal Valley probation stations - Fingal, St Mary's Pass, Falmouth barracks.
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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]")
![Convict Places – A Guide to Tasmanian Convict Heritage Sites | Michael Nash | 2020 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/xctmp8Y7GrU.png "Convict Places – A Guide to Tasmanian Convict Heritage Sites | Michael Nash | 2020 [NEW – SC]")
![Convict Tattoos – Examining and Illustrating the Tattoos of Convict Men and Women | Simon Barnard | 2016 [HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/convict-tattoos-yluug7.png "Convict Tattoos – Examining and Illustrating the Tattoos of Convict Men and Women | Simon Barnard | 2016 [HCDJ]")
![Convicts Unbound – The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and Their Settlement in Australia | Marjorie Tipping | 1988 | Signed by Author [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/convicts-unbound-1GXgxv.png "Convicts Unbound – The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and Their Settlement in Australia | Marjorie Tipping | 1988 | Signed by Author [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]")
![Convicts Unbound – The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and Their Settlement in Australia | Marjorie Tipping | 1988 | Signed, Numbered & Specially Bound Edition No. 53 [USED – HC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/convicts-unbound-special-binding-o0yEf7.png "Convicts Unbound – The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and Their Settlement in Australia | Marjorie Tipping | 1988 | Signed, Numbered & Specially Bound Edition No. 53 [USED – HC]")