A collection of petitions, memorials and letters from the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land, gathered and transcribed by Eustace FitzSymonds from original documents held in colonial archives, with numerous pages reproduced in facsimile directly from the manuscripts. The documents are the voices of the convict system itself — petitions for mercy, memorials requesting tickets of leave, letters of complaint and protest, correspondence between convicts and colonial administrators.
A history booklet about Australia's first railway, powered by convict labour.
A history of Port Arthur, the convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula that operated from 1830 to 1877. Maggie Weidenhofer covers the establishment and daily operation of the station, the people held there, and its place in Tasmania's convict heritage.