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1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet
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Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this. Eleven of the tiniest ships sailed for eight months over the roughest seas, carrying 1500 people, food for two years, and all the equipment needed to build a colony of convicts ...
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A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the 'Princess Royal'
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New edition of the bestselling history that traces the chequered story of 100 women transported together in 1829 to Sydney. Includes new information on the women and treatment of convicts, and new illustrations ...
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American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850
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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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Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era
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A controversial new history of convicts in Australia, which lays bare the distortions and myths that caused the nation to deny its own past ...
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Beautiful Bodies: The Doomed Voyage of the Convict Ship 'Amphitrite' and her Cargo of Infamous Damned Whores
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In August 1833, the Amphitrite, a small convict ship bound for the colonies of Australia, was wrecked in a terrible storm on the coast of France. She carried 102 female prisoners, 12 of their children, along with the captain, the crew, a medical officer and one passenger – the medical officer's wife. Only three people survived ...
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Caught in the Act: Unusual Offences of Port Arthur Convicts
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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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Convict Records in Australia
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Our Price: AU$25.00
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Not every Australian has convict background, but there are a large portion that do ... so how do you go about researching them and just where do you find the records?
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Convict Women
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Our Price: AU$35.00
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This title looks beyond the conventional images to draw a new and often surprising picture of convict women's experiences in a strange and harsh country.
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Convicts and Employers (New South Wales) Index: 1828, 1832-1833, Jan 1838-Jan 1844
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Our Price: AU$44.50
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This index of 22,574 records has been compiled primarily from lists published in the New South Wales Government Gazettes in 1832-1833 of assignments (male and female), absconders, absconders ...
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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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Free Passage: The Reunion of Irish Convicts and their Families in Australia 1788-1852
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Our Price: AU$49.50
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This is the poignant and complex story of the reunion of Irish families in Australia from 1788-1852. A hidden history full of human drama, the story has never been told before. over a third of convicts transported to the Australian colonies between 1788-1868 were Irish ...
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Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia's First Colony
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'Freedom on the Fatal Shore' brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of Australian history. This new book combines both of these classic works into a single volume ...
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General Muster of New South Wales with Land and Stock Returns, 1822
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Our Price: AU$57.00
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Over 23,000 entries for convicts and free people, including children - age, ship of arrival, sentence, occupation, employer, place of residence.
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How to Trace Your Convict Ancestors: Their Lives, Times and Records
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Genealogy is one of Australia's most popular hobbies, and Janet Reakes is one the best-known and most widely published genealogical authorities. How times have changed! It is with a sense ...
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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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Index to Convicts who Arrived in New South Wales 1788-1842
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An index to convicts who arrived in New South Wales (and some in VDL) between 1788 and 1842 and to the ships that transported them. Gives convict's name or alias, arrival date, ...
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Journey to a New Life: The Story of the 'Emu' in 1812 and 'Broxbornebury' in 1814
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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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Muster List of New South Wales 1823-1825
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Our Price: AU$76.00
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The first official general musters were taken in the earliest years of the New South Wales settlement as a mean of counting the population, controlling the convicts and determining the ...
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Musters of New South Wales and Norfolk Island 1805-1806
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Our Price: AU$44.00
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The General Muster of New South Wales for the year 1806 is a document of almost unparalleled importance in the history of the early colony. For the first two decades of the colony, very little information about ordinary individuals has survived,
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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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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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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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Stories and Tales of the Transported Convicts
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250 stories about some of the obscure yet fascinating convicts transported to Australia. Almost half of those mentioned are females, some were slaves, trade union martyrs, political exiles, Negroes, Jews, ...
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The Bibliography of the Convict Transports
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A list of all 1040 convict transports in alphabetical order, showing the number of people aboard, place of arrival and the source and call number of the ship's indent or ...
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The Career of William Thompson, Convict
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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 Convict Ships 1787-1868
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Originally published in 1959, 'The Convict Ships' has been accepted by historians and scholars as the standard work on the subject. This Australian edition, which follows the revised ...
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The Convicts and Exiles Transported From Ireland 1791-1820
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This work was developed under the working title 'The Convicts Transported from Ireland 1791-1820'. However, the records revealed a terrible Irish tragedy. Too many arrivals in Australia were ...
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The Convicts of the 'Eleanor': Protest in Rural England, New Lives in Australia
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The convicts transported on the 'Eleanor' in February 1831 were not hardened criminals. The men on board - impoverished agricultural labourers and rural craftsmen from Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset - were transported because they were 'Swing rioters' - men who dared to demand a modest wage increase ...
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The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868
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'The Fatal Shore' is horrifying and humorous, at times touching and at others inspiring, and is thoroughly absorbing. Hughes states his intention: "To see the System from below, through convicts' ...
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The First Fleet 1788 Chart
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With the loss of her American possessions following the American Revolution of 1776, Britain sought to colonize new lands to take care of her burdensome convict problem. The goals and ...
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The First Fleet Families
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A comprehensive list of the first fleet families including 1200 of their children. Also available on microfiche.
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The First Fleet: The Real Story
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In 1797 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people set out from England from Botany Bay. Alan Frost draws on hundreds of previously neglected records to debunk the myths that the voyage was a complete muddle and not unplanned ...
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The First Frontier: The Occupation of the Sydney Region 1788 to 1816
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'The First Frontier' examines the relationship between the the colonists and Aborigines in those early years of the colony and delves into the background of the people who were involved in some of the events, tragic and otherwise, that occurred up until the even of hostilities in the Sydney region in 1816.
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The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary Story of Female Convicts Bound for Botany Bay
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"The Floating Brothel" is the gripping true story of 237 female convicts - mainly taken from London's fever-ridden, overcrowded Newgate Gaol - to the fledgling colony of New South Wales.Though it was percieved that the ship was rife with prostitution and debauchery, the reality was more complex and more interesting ...
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The Forgotten Australians: The Non-Anglo or Celtic Convicts and Exiles
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This work was conceived by the Members and Staff of the New South Wales Ethnic Affairs Commission. It was their hope that someone with knowledge of the Australian ...
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The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New
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In the nineteenth century, the Irish population was halved. 'The Great Shame', a remarkable work of non-fiction, traces the three causes of this depletion: the famine; the emigrations; ...
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The History of Australian Corrections
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Australia's convict era is well-recorded, however the justice and punishment systems that followed, as well as Australia's prison and correctional system have scarcely been documents - until now. Sean O'Toole covers the transportation process, the convict era and ...
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The Old Razorback Road: Life on the Great South Road between Camden and Picton 1830-1930
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A nightmare for the convicts who built it and the travellers forced to endure its horrors for a hundred years. The Great South Road was built to allow the distribution of wool, tallow, hides and other products to Sydney docks from Campbelltown and Picton and beyond. The route chosen was over the Razorback Range, a jagged range with steep cliffs and rocky spurs, an unstable ...
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The Ship Thieves: James Porter, Australian Convict, Pirate and Master Mariner
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As dusk came down on the evening of 13 January 1834, James Porter and nine other convicts, transported at His Majesty’s Pleasure to VDL, captured the newly launched barque the Frederick from their British masters ...
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The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
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Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time ...
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Thoughts on Convict Management
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List Price AU$23.50
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In 1836 Alexander Maconochie sailed to the convict settlement at Hobart in Van Diemen's Land as private secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Franklin. Here he wrote a report strongly critical of the state of prison discipline ...
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Through the Eyes of Thomas Pamphlett: Convict and Castaway
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This book examines the everyday lives of convict Thomas Pamphlett (1788?-1838) and other ordinary people in such diverse places as Manchester, a convict ship, Sydney, a chain gang, Newcastle, the Hawkesbury area and Brisbane. A brickmaker from Manchester, he was sentenced to 14 years' transportation for stealing a horse ...
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What Was the Voyage Really Like?: A Brief Guide to Researching Convict and Immigrant Voyages to Australia and New Zealand
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Our Price: AU$11.00
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Discovering when and how an ancestor arrived in Australia is the ambition of every family historian. This book, written as an expanded version of a talk that the author gives, is an excellent up-to-date guide on the topic of researching "Convict and Immigrant Voyages to Australia and New Zealand" ...
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