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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
Added: Jun 5, 2025
 
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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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The Second Fleet See details
The Second Fleet
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A book about Britain's grim convict armada of 1790, shipping criminals to the colony of New South Wales.
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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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Repression, Reform & Resilience See details
Repression, Reform & Resilience
 
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A history of the Cascades Female Factory edited by Alison Alexander.
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Reverend George Eastman - The Convicts' Good Parson See details
Reverend George Eastman - The Convicts' Good Parson
 
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The story of a parson who believed that convicts in the later period of Van Diemen's Land's transportation era (1844-1870) could be reformed and who did all within his ability to help them achieve this lofty goal.
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Sarah Island - used See details
Sarah Island - used
 
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An account of the convict settlements of Sarah Island, west coast Tasmania from 1822 - 1832 and 1846 - 1847.
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Shadow over Tasmania See details
Shadow over Tasmania
 
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Journalist Coultman Smith wrote this very popular small book telling "the truth / whole story about the State's convicts". It has been reprinted many times since its first publication in 1941, although it is now out of print.
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Some Notes on Maria Island and its Penal Settlements See details
Some Notes on Maria Island and its Penal Settlements
 
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A short history of the convict settlements on Maria Island, just a little way off the East Coast of Tasmania.
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Tasmania's Convicts - hardcover See details
Tasmania's Convicts - hardcover
 
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While the public stigma of its convict past has given way to a contemporary fascination with colonial history, in Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander debates whether the convict past lingers deep in the psyche of white Tasmania.
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Tasmania's Convicts - softcover, used See details
Tasmania's Convicts - softcover, used
 
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How felons built a free society - Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania.
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Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders Volume 1 - New Frontiers 1803-1821 See details
Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders Volume 1 - New Frontiers 1803-1821
 
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A look at some of the history of Tasmania's early beginnings as a penal colony of the British Empire, covering the period 1803-1821.
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