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Mary Proctor - Convict, Pioneer and Settler
Added: Mar 12, 2026
 
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The true story of Mary Procter, a female convict transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1820s.

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Letters of An Irish Patriot
Added: Mar 12, 2026
 
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The letters of Irish exile William Paul Dowling, who established himself as an artist and photographer after being transported to Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania for sedition in 1848.

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The Journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth
Added: Mar 12, 2026
 
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The 1787-1789 journal of the surgeon onboard the First Fleet convict transportation ship "Lady Penrhyn" - notable for the high survival rate of its more than 100 female prisoners.

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

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From the Edges of Empire - Convict Women from Beyond the British Isles
 
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Remarkable stories of convict women transported to Australia who were born or tried outside the British Isles.

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From the Proteus to Prosperity
 
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In the steps of John Walduck (1809-1886); a convict family history.

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Gaolbird - the true story of William Swallow Convict & Pirate
 
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This children's picture story book tells the outrageous and unbelievable true story of a convict pirate named Swallow from Simon Barnard, the 2015 CBCA winner of A-Z Convicts in Van Diemen's Land.

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Governor Arthur's Convict System
 
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A history of Governor Arthur's convict system in Van Diemen's Land 1824-36.

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Heart of Exile
 
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Popular Australian author Patsy Adam-Smith writes a history of the seven Irish patriots banished in 1848 and exiled with convicts to Van Diemen's Land.

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