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From Fields of Stone
Added: Jun 6, 2026
The history of female convict Nappy King in famine Ireland & colonial Tasmania.

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The Convict and the Compass
Added: Apr 17, 2026
Sentenced at 26 years old for his role in an uprising against British rule in Ireland, James Meehan arrived in Australia in 1800 as a convict servant to English explorer Charles Grimes.

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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 - the Port Arthur convict photographs
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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Exiled Three Times Over!
Profiles of Norfolk Islanders exiled in Van Diemen's Land 1807-13.

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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
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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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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Foot Steps and Voices
An historical look into the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart, Tasmania / Van Diemen's Land.

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For Better or Worse
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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For the Term of His Natural Life - Popular Penguin
The orange Popular Penguin edition of Marcus Clarke's historical convict novel, For the Term of His Natural Life.

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