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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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From the Proteus to Prosperity
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In the steps of John Walduck (1809-1886); a convict family history.

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Brady Van Diemen's Land 1824-1827
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Bushrangers in Van Diemen's Land 1824-1827 from James Calder's text of 1873 together with newly discovered manuscripts, edited by Eustace Fitzsymonds.

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

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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 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 Tattoos - examining and illustrating the tattoos of convict men and women
 
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At least 37% of male convicts and 15% of female convicts were tattooed by the time they arrived in the penal colonies, making Australians quite possibly the world's most heavily tattooed English-speaking people of the 19th century.

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Convict Words - used
 
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Language in early colonial Australia.

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Convict-era Port Arthur
 
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A comprehensive history over a fifty year period of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in Port Arthur, one of the most remote and feared convict locations in colonial Australia.

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Convicts - Transportation & Australia USED
 
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The transportation of prisoners to Australia is one of the most vexed issues of the nation's history.

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Convicts at Sea - the Voyages of the Irish convict transports to Van Diemen's Land
 
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Convicts at Sea is an account of the voyages which carried some 10,223 convicts, tried in Ireland, to Van Diemen's Land between the years 1840-1853.

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