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Maria Island History and Landscapes 1825-1930
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A history of Maria Island's recent past structured around four key touchstones: the two phases of convict occupation during the Penal Period 1825-32 and the Probation Period 1842-52; the optimistic tenure of the Bernacchi Period 1884-96; and the resource exploitation of the Industrial Period 1920-30.

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Convict Orphans
 
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The heartbreaking stories of the early Australian colony's forgotten children, and those who succeeded against all odds as convict orphans in the Queen's Orphan Schools in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land.

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Convict-era Port Arthur
 
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A comprehensive history over a fifty year period of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in Port Arthur, one of the most remote and feared convict locations in colonial Australia.

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The Ship That Never Was
 
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The greatest escape story of Van Diemen's Land's colonial history by the son of Australia’s best-loved storyteller.

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Repression, Reform & Resilience
 
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A history of the Cascades Female Factory edited by Alison Alexander.

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Wild Oats - the convict family Goodson
 
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Wild Oats is the true story of a family of convicts, the Goodsons.

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Bound for Australia
 
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A guide to the records held by The National Archives in the UK of transported convicts and early settlers to the Australian colonies.

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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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The Diemenois - A Novel in Pictures
 
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A graphic novel... On the 5th of May 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, died of stomach cancer. Or did he?Little is known about the French Tasmanian colony of la Ville de Baudin. Less still about its most mysterious colonist, Henri Maurice Claudet.

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The Master of Hell’s Gates
 
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Captain William Kinghorne (1796 - 1878) navigated some of the most treacherous waters in the world.

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William Rose Watts - Six Stolen Mugs
 
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This is the biography and family history of convict William Rose Watts, born in Essex in 1811 and transported to Van Diemen's Land for 14-years for stealing six ceramic mugs from his employer.

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