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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] See details
The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ]
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James Meehan was sentenced at 26 for his role in an uprising against British rule in Ireland and arrived in Australia in 1800 as a convict servant to English explorer Charles Grimes. Through talent and persistence he rose to become Acting Surveyor General of the New South Wales colony, working under five governors from 1800 to 1822.

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Crime, Punishment and Redemption - a Norfolk Island convict's life See details
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 See details
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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Design for Convicts – An Account of Design for Convict Establishments in the Australian Colonies During the Transportation Era | James Semple Kerr | 1984 [USED – HCDJ] See details
Design for Convicts – An Account of Design for Convict Establishments in the Australian Colonies During the Transportation Era | James Semple Kerr | 1984 [USED – HCDJ]

An architectural and historical account of the design and construction of convict establishments across the Australian colonies during the transportation era — covering prisons, penitentiaries, probation stations, barracks, hospitals and associated infrastructure built to house, control and employ convict labour.

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Doing Time See details
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! See details
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] See details
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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Fair Dinkum Histories - Grim Crims and Convicts 1788-1820 See details
Fair Dinkum Histories - Grim Crims and Convicts 1788-1820
An Australian history book for children... It was the craziest, wildest and most daring expedition the world had ever seen.
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Female Factory Female Convicts See details
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 See details
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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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
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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