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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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Recovering Convict Lives - Port Arthur
 
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An historical archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary in Tasmania.

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No Ordinary Convict - A Welshman Called Rebecca
 
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The Rebecca Riots took place in Wales between 1839 and 1844 to protest primarily about excessive tolls imposed on travel across the Welsh countryside.

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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 Ghost & the Bounty Hunter
 
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Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness.

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Judicial Murder - The Crown vs David Young
 
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David Young, an ex-convict and a Vandemonian, was looking for work near Daylesford in the Victorian Goldfields in 1864. It was there that Margaret Graham, a 17-year old bride, was brutally murdered in her bed. And it was there that the hunt was on to track down her murderer.

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Fair Dinkum Histories - Grim Crims and Convicts 1788-1820
 
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An Australian history book for children... It was the craziest, wildest and most daring expedition the world had ever seen.

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Tom Appleby Convict Boy
 
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A story of transportation and life in a new world.

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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 Indomitable Mr Cotham - Missioner, Convict Chaplain & Monk
 
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The Benedictine monk, James Ambrose Cotham, served more than 15 years in Van Diemen's Land in a period the colony began its transition from penal colony to free statehood.

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Transported - illustrated tales of misfortune and roguery
 
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Those criminals convicted and transported to Van Diemen's Land all had lives before their convictions, but we know little of them.


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