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Tweet Early female convicts transported to Australia have had their reputations unfairly tarnished by history, says Riaz Hassan. Some years ago while researching for my book on suicide in Australia, I thought it would be interesting to begin...
Tweet A convict sent out over a 10-shilling theft left a proud legacy, writes descendant and senior correspondent Barry Everingham. Matthew James Everingham On January 26, 1788, a young London-born solicitor’s clerk, all of 18 years of...
Tweet One of the solutions to the critical criminal overcrowding problem in British gaols in the late eighteenth century was a convict settlement on the Island of Lemain in the River Gambia. The unusual twist of the proposal was “the Establishment...
Tweetby Australian historian Brad Webb In the early nineteenth century, Britain embarked on a social engineering scheme that saw Australia become the first colony to build a society on the labour of convicted felons. With growing poverty and...
