Some convicts in Australia escaped and found shelter, solidarity, and even family among the Indigenous groups they'd been ...
A "boisterous egalitarianism" was tearing down social barriers as the diggers "enjoy[ed] a new liberty, of which they never dreamed before". One visiting British aristocrat, Lord Robert Cecil – the ...
Our guest, Siân Rees, is the author of ‘The Floating Brothel: The extraordinary true story of an 18th-century ship and its ...
I first read John Hirst (1942-2016) as an undergraduate in the late 1990s as part of a subject on 19th-century Australian history. We discussed convict history and explored contrasting views about its ...
When the Tasmanian convicts seized the colonial Cyprus brig and made a daring dash for freedom across the Pacific, they ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fate dealt Honorah Sullivan a bad hand when she was found guilty of arson in the mid-19th century and put on a British convict ship bound for modern-day Tasmania. But more than 160 ...
An award-winning researcher will talk next month about the unsung contributions to Bermuda made by 19th-century British convicts. The virtual presentation, called “Faint and weary by working in the ...
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