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American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850
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Our Price: AU$34.95
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'We hardly had our feet on the soil, when almost the first objects that greeted our vision were gibbets, and men toiling in the most abject misery, looking more degraded ...
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Caught in the Act: Unusual Offences of Port Arthur Convicts
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Our Price: AU$7.65
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"Caught in the Act" is a collection of some the more unusal offences of convicts ... read about the convicts who wasted bran, made cards out of the Bible, or had a counterfeit shilling ... fascinating reading ...
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Closing Hell's Gates: The Death of a Convict Station
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Our Price: AU$24.95
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In October 1827, nine convicts who had endured years of unimaginable cruelty at the hands of the system opted for 'state-assisted' escape (the death sentence). When the sentence of death was pronounced upon them, the condemned prisoners uttered just one word in reply: Amen ...
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Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-13
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Our Price: AU$23.50
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The comprehensive story of the lives of men and women who found themselves exiled - unbelievably - for the third time in early nineteenth century Van Diemen's Land.
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Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813
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Our Price: AU$39.50
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A reprint of the original which was written in 1992, this is the comprehensive story of the lives of men and women who found themselves exiled - unbelievably - for the third time in early nineteenth century Van Diemen's Land.
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Exiled: The Port Arthur Convict Photographs
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Our Price: AU$39.95
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The Port Arthur convict photographs are a remarkable record of the men who were sent from Britain to serve time in Australia between the 1820s and the 1850s. This book takes some of these portraits and combines them with biographies of the men based on transportation records, trials, correspondence, prison files, newspaper ...
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Index to Colonial Convict Movements 1827 to 1853
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Our Price: AU$15.00
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This index contains convict movement in the Colony of New South Wales (encompassing what is now New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria) of nearly 10,000 convicts. This ...
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Journey to a New Life: The Story of the 'Emu' in 1812 and 'Broxbornebury' in 1814
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Our Price: AU$40.00
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Through thorough research, the story of the convict ships 'Emu' and 'Broxbornebury' and those on it are brought to life. Providing details of not only all the convicts, but crew and free passengers ...
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Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls: The Story of the 1600 Convict Women Sent to Van Diemen's Land from 1803 to 1829
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Our Price: AU$35.00
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Notorious Strumpets tells the story of each of the 1600 convict women sent to Van Diemen's Land (now known as Tasmania) in the first three decades of European settlement. Now republished on CD it includes more than 1600 fully searchable biographies, a gallery of maps, pictures ...
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Pack of Thieves?: 52 Port Arthur Lives
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Our Price: AU$10.95
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This book charts the lives of 52 prisoners who served time at Port Arthur in the 1830s, and it looks at the impact of transportation upon their lives and charts the ways in which they made their way through the penal system ...
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Port Arthur 1830-1877: A Compelling History of Australia's Most Infamous Convict Settlement
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Our Price: AU$16.45
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Over the years, since it closed in 1877, Port Arthur has been the subject of much mis-representation. This booklet has been prepared to present a balanced view of Port Arthur and its allied stations on Tasman Peninsula. It is based on original documents of 1830-1877, wherever possible ...
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Sarah Island: An Account of the Penal Settlements of Sarah Island, Tasmania From 1822-1833 and 1846-1847
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Our Price: AU$19.95
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Macquarie Harbour was known in its time as an 'Earthly Hell', as it was located far away from any of the settled areas, and surrounded by forest. Also no maps ...
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Tasmania Collection of Records 1830s to 1930s
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Our Price: AU$220.00
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Compiled by the Kiama Family History Volunteers Group, this CD-ROM lists over 175,000 references to people in Tasmania up to 1950. Compiled from material held in the Mitchell ...
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Tasmania's Convicts: How Felons Built a Free Society
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Our Price: AU$45.00
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The story of the 72,000 convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land from 1803 to 1853, and the colony they built ...
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The Career of William Thompson, Convict
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Our Price: AU$34.95
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William Thompson was a transported for life for burglary in 1841, when he was only 21. He arrived just as the new probation system was introduced, and was freed 12 years later. In his time in the convict system he worked in numerous road gangs, this is his story ...
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The Man Who Stole the 'Cyprus': A True Story of Escape
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Our Price: AU$29.95
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On the evening of 14 August 1829 the government brig 'Cyprus' was sheltering in Recherche Bay on the remote south-east coast of Tasmania when she was captured by eighteen convicts under the leadership of William Swallow, a prisoner for life ...
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Transcribing Tasmanian Convict Records
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Our Price: AU$17.95
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Over recent years there has been a growing interest in searching for one's ancestors. Many have discovered they have links with a man, woman or child transported as ...
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Van Diemen's Land
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Our Price: AU$29.95
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Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. This is a book filled with new facts about one of the most dramatic episodes in British colonialism ...
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Van Diemens Land Records: Exiled Three Times Over & Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists 1803-1822
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Price if Purchased Separately AU$59.00
Compendium Set Price AU$29.50
Special until 23 December, 9am AU$10.00
You save AU$49.00!
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Two important Tasmanian record books by Irene Schaffer now on a single CD. Here you will find biographical information, copies of official government records, lists, facts and statistics, information and much more.
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