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Maria Island History and Landscapes 1825-1930 See details
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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Child Convicts - Our Stories See details
Child Convicts - Our Stories
 
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At the age of seven, children in 18th century Britain were tried in court like adults; some, as young as nine, were transported to the colonies.
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Transported - illustrated tales of misfortune and roguery See details
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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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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Convicts in the Colonies See details
Convicts in the Colonies
 
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Transportation tales from Britain to Australia. In the 80 years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported 'beyond the seas'. This is a USED book.
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Abandoned Women - Scottish Convicts in Van Diemen's Land See details
Abandoned Women - Scottish Convicts in Van Diemen's Land
 
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Abandoned Women - Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas s a rich and evocative account of the lives of women at the bottom of society two hundred years ago.
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The Fatal Shore See details
The Fatal Shore
 
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In 1787 the British Government sent a fleet of ships loaded with convicts to colonise Australia.
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Wanted Martin Cash See details
Wanted Martin Cash
 
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The story of Martin Cash one of Van Diemen's Land's more colourful convicts and bushrangers.
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Closing Hell's Gates - the death of a convict station See details
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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Gaolbird - the true story of William Swallow Convict & Pirate See details
Gaolbird - the true story of William Swallow Convict & Pirate
 
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This children's picture story book tells the outrageous and unbelievable true story of a convict pirate named Swallow from Simon Barnard, the 2015 CBCA winner of A-Z Convicts in Van Diemen's Land.
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Convict Lives at the George Town Female Factory See details
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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