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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 Places - A Guide to Tasmanian Sites
 
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A guide to some of Tasmania's key convict sites, revealing their historic past as well as the remains that are still to be found today.

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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 Lives at the Ross Female Factory
 
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The stories of women convicts who served at the Ross Female Factory.

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Convict Lives at the New Norfolk Asylum
 
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The lives of twenty two women convict inmates at New Norfolk's Asylum are examined in this continuing series of Convict Lives.

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Convict Lives at the Launceston Female Factory
 
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The story of the female convicts who lived and worked at the Launceston Female Factory.

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Convict Lives at the George Town Female Factory
 
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The stories of women who were sent to the first 'female factory" in the north of Tasmania.

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Convict Lives at the Cascades Female Factory Volume 2
 
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The stories of 29 female convicts who spent time at Hobart's Cascades Female Factory.

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Convict Lives - Young Girls Transported to Van Diemen's Land
 
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Jane Smith, aged thirteen, was transported as a convict to Van Diemen’s Land for arson. Mary Ann Oseman was nine when she served her first jail sentence for theft, and was transported aged twelve. Mary Ann Little had been a prostitute for four years before being transported at fifteen.

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Convict Colony
 
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Convict Colony - the remarkable story of the fledgling settlement at Sydney that survived against the odds.

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Closing Hell's Gates - the death of a convict station
 
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Based on an elaborate reconstruction of day-to-day life at Macquarie Harbour, one of Australia's most notorious sites of convict punishment, this is the true story of how, in 1827, nine convicts opted for 'state-assisted' escape (the death sentence) rather than endure the hardships and privations of the penal settlement on Sarah Island.

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