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Urchin Convicts - the Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land See details
Urchin Convicts - the Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land
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In the early 19th century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over 2000 boys were transported from the streets of London to the Point Puer Boys Establishment at Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s Land.
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Mortmain - Facsimile collection of documents from Van Diemen's Land convict colony See details
Mortmain - Facsimile collection of documents from Van Diemen's Land convict colony
 
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Mortmain - A collection of choice petitions, memorials and letters of protest and request from the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land; written by divers persons, both eminent and lowly, and collected and transcribed from the originals by Eustace FitzSymonds, with numerous pages of the manuscripts shewn in facsimile. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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My Name is Lizzie Flynn - Rajah Quilt story See details
My Name is Lizzie Flynn - Rajah Quilt story
 
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A story of the Rajah quilt (now held in the Australian National Gallery, Canberra), made by convict women on board the ship 'Rajah' while being transported to Van Diemen's Land.
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No Ordinary Convict - A Welshman Called Rebecca See details
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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Norfolk Island and its First Settlement 1788-1814 See details
Norfolk Island and its First Settlement 1788-1814
 
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A history of the first convict settlement of Norfolk Island, which was quite unlike the subsequent second settlement when the island was used as a place of secondary punishment for transported convicts.
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Patchwork Prisoners - the Rajah Quilt See details
Patchwork Prisoners - the Rajah Quilt
 
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Patchwork Prisoners is a study of the 180 female convicts who were transported on the convict ship Rajah from England to Hobart, Van Diemen's Land in 1841, and the Rajah Quilt they made during their voyage.
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Point Puer... the boys' prison of Port Arthur See details
Point Puer... the boys' prison of Port Arthur
 
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A history of Point Puer at Port Arthur convict settlement, Van Diemen's Land - the first exclusive boys prison in the British Empire.
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Port Arthur - A Place of Misery See details
Port Arthur - A Place of Misery
 
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Convict history.
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Port Arthur Railway Across Tasman Peninsula See details
Port Arthur Railway Across Tasman Peninsula
 
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A history booklet about Australia's first railway, powered by convict labour.
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Probation in Paradise See details
Probation in Paradise
 
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Probation in Paradise tells the history of convict probationers on Tasman's and Forestier's peninsulas, Van Diemen's Land, 1841-1857.
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Recovering Convict Lives - Port Arthur See details
Recovering Convict Lives - Port Arthur
 
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An historical archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary in Tasmania.
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