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.
Crime, Punishment and Redemption - a Norfolk Island convict's life
John Ward's Norfolk Island convict diary, examined by author June Slee — perhaps the only extant diary written by a convict during the Australian penal era while imprisoned. Softcover, 2014, 207 pages, indexed.
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Dear Cousin - The Reiby Letters
"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
Crooks, craftsmen and founding citizens - stories of convict clock and watchmakers in Van Diemen's Land.
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Exiled Three Times Over!
Profiles of Norfolk Islanders exiled in Van Diemen's Land 1807-13.
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Exiled – The Port Arthur Convict Photographs | Edwin Barnard | 2010 [USED – SC – Out of Print]
In the 1870s, as Port Arthur penal settlement was closing, someone photographed the remaining convicts. Those photographs survived. This book reproduces them — the actual faces of men transported to Van Diemen's Land from Britain and Ireland between the 1820s and the 1850s. Not paintings, not drawings, not reconstructions — photographs. You are looking at the real people.
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Female Factory Female Convicts
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
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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![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]")
![Design for Convicts – An Account of Design for Convict Establishments in the Australian Colonies During the Transportation Era | James Semple Kerr | 1984 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/design-for-convicts-zh4FYq.png "Design for Convicts – An Account of Design for Convict Establishments in the Australian Colonies During the Transportation Era | James Semple Kerr | 1984 [USED – HCDJ]")
![Exiled – The Port Arthur Convict Photographs | Edwin Barnard | 2010 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/exiled-port-arthur-convict-photographs-5ZOHVd.png "Exiled – The Port Arthur Convict Photographs | Edwin Barnard | 2010 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
