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  • $35.00 1788: Brutal Truth of the First Fleet
    Book 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 of seas, carrying fifteen hundred people, food for two years and all the...
  • $10.00 Arrows of Hope: Selected convict stories
    Book Selected convict stories [over 80] 167 pages with index List of Names Book 1 ANLEZARK Thomas Ainsworth--AYRES William--BARTON George--BECKLEY Ann-- BLACKALL Samuel--BRACKLEY John--BROOKS--Thomas--BULL Elizabeth--BURKE...
  • $15.00 Arrows of Hope: Selected convict stories vol.2
    Book 277 pages of select convict stories with index   List of Names Book 2 ADAMSON Ann--ANKIN George--ANTHONY Henry--ASHCROFT John--ATWELL William--BENNETT James--BOWLES Justice--BRAXTON George--BRENNAN...
  • $50.00 Australia's Birthstain
    Book Why is it that Australians are still misled by myths about their convict heritage? Why are so many family historians surprised to find a convict ancestor in their family trees? Why did an entire society collude to...
  • $20.00 Australia's Convict Past
    Book Robert Coupe On 26 January 1788, a fleet of eleven ships sailed into Port Jackson. Among the 1500 people on board were about 750 British and Irish Convicts - men and women who were being punished for their crimes by...
  • $5.00 Bibliography of the Convict Transports
    Book There were 1040 she which carried convicts, agricultural land rights activists, capital offenders, criminals, exiles, Luddite machine breakers, military deserters and mutineers, political detainees, pirates, patriots...
  • $35.00 Cargo of Women
    Book Babette Smith A Cargo of Women traces the chequered story of one hundred women transported together in 1829 on the ship Princess Royal. Caught in an England convulsed by change, they became the unwitting and unwilling...
  • $25.00 Convict Lives: women at Cascades Female Factory
    Book This book by members of the Female Factory Research Group tells the stories of 33 fascinating women. Cascades Female Factory in Van Diemen's Land opened in 1828 and closed as a gaol in 1877. Female convicts, and some...
  • $27.00 Convict records in Australia
    Book This book is designed to assist researchers understand the vast amount of material and records available for convict research in Australia. It highlights what records are available and what they contain. It is arranged...
  • $39.00 Convict Ships 1788-1868
    CD record 2004 edition First published in 1959, this book has been accepted by historians and scholars as the standard work on its subject. Contents: Preface to Australian Edition Preface to First Edition Illustrations...
  • $35.00 Convict women
    Book Who were the female convicts? What kinds of lives did they lead in a new society half a world away from home? 'Convict Women' looks beyond the conventional images to draw a new and often surprising picture of convict...
  • $55.00 Death or Liberty: the convicts of the Britannia, Ireland to Botany Bay 1797
    Book Death would have been a better option than life on board the 1797 convict ship Britannia. Its 200 or so convicts had faced a sadistic captain, stilfvation rations and savage punishments during their long journey from...
  • $33.00 Fatal Shore
    Book In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian...
  • $37.00 Freedom on the Fatal Shore
    Book 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...
  • $15.00 Index to Colonial Convict Movements 1827 to 1853
    CD record This index concerns convict movements in the Colony of New South Wales (encompassing what is now New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria) of nearly 10,000 convicts. These records involve, for the time...
  • $55.00 Irish Vanguard
    Book Ireland, 1790.  Crime is escalating, as hundreds of vagrants stroll the streets prostituting themselves and robbing others.  Those already in gaol were digging their way out through the sewers, as others did...
  • $30.00 Mary Proctor: convict, pioneer, settler
    Book Author: Jeff Atkinson is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and is a policy advisor for Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, Melbourne. This biography is the true story of a woman who was transported to Australia as a...
  • $55.00 Nimble fingered tribe: The Convicts of the Sugar Cane, Ireland to Botany Bay 1793
    Book The second book in a series of five, A Nimble fingered tribe continues Barbra Hall's impressive and meticulous anthology of the Irish transported to Botany Bay prior to 1800, and is a captivating source for anyone...
  • $35.00 Norfolk Island 1774-1998
    Book A revised and enlarged edition. Softcover; A5; 228pp; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Author: Merval Hoare Now in its fifth edition, Norfolk Island: A Revised and Enlarged History 1774-1998 is an authoritative account of...
  • $13.00 Norfolk Island 1788-1813
    Book This is a work that evolved rather than especially conceived. It emerged from an effort to identify the fathers of particular children listed in Norfolk Island's 1805 Census. It was the practice, until 1810 for the...
  • $33.00 Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls
    CD record Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls was originally published in 1990 as an 1,800-page book. It has long-since been out of print. This was how convict Julia Mullins was described by a government official when...
  • $55.00 Of Infamous Character: the convicts of the Boddingtons, Ireland to Botany Bay 1793
    Book Together with the first two publications in this series Desperate set of Villains (A) :The convicts of the Marquis Cornwallis, Ireland to Botany Bay 1796 and A Nimble fingered tribe: The Convicts of the Sugar Cane,...
  • $19.50 Prisoners of Australia: A Narrative
    CD record Prisoners of Australia: A Narrative was written by a lady with the initials C. A, to the London Committee of the 'British Ladies' Prison Visiting Association'. C. A. was commissioned by Mrs [Elizabeth] Fry to...
  • $30.00 Settlers and seditionists: the people of the convict ship Surprize 1794
    Book 1793 was an annul horribilis for King George III... His French counterpart lost his head at the guillotine, while millions in Britain were reading Thomas Paine's "seditious" Rights of Man as issues of republicanism,...
  • $23.50 Thoughts on Convict Management
    CD record Thoughts on Convict Management was written by Captain Maconochie for the purpose of making recommendations about the way convicts should be disciplined, viewed and treated, focussing more on moral influences rather...

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