Australian Convicts From The First Fleet To The End Of Transportation
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Australian Convicts From The First Fleet To The End Of Transportation
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Author : Jill Barbara Bruce
language : en
Publisher: Kangaroo Press
Release Date : 2006
Australian Convicts From The First Fleet To The End Of Transportation written by Jill Barbara Bruce and has been published by Kangaroo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Australia categories.
Learn about the convicts before they were sent to Australia, what conditions they lived in on the hulks, what their crimes were and when they were sent to Australia.
Convicts In The Colonies
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Author : Lucy Williams
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2018-09-30
Convicts In The Colonies written by Lucy Williams and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-30 with Social Science categories.
“A book that looks deeply into the lives of some of the convicts who were sentenced in court to be transported to Botany Bay.” —Pirates and Privateers In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported beyond the seas. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empires most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation to Australia—from the first to the final fleet. Using the latest original research, Convicts in the Colonies reveals a fascinating century-long history of British convicts unlike any other. Covering everything from crime and sentencing in Britain and the perilous voyage to Australia, to life in each of the three main penal colonies—New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land, and Western Australia—this book charts the lives and experiences of the men and women who crossed the world and underwent one of the most extraordinary punishments in history. “An easily read, fascinating history, telling the tales of the ‘recidivist’ convicts in the 18th and 19th centuries.” —The Essex Family Historian
The Fatal Shore
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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Fatal Shore written by Robert Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Australia categories.
The Fatal Shore reveals the full extent of Australia's role as the concentration camp of Georgian England, and in doing so has set new standards in the writing of narrative history
Crime Punishment And Redemption
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Author : June Slee
language : en
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Crime Punishment And Redemption written by June Slee and has been published by National Library of Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Political Science categories.
'the love of my life'... John Ward, writing whilst incarcerated on Norfolk Island, tells a story of thwarted love that–he claims–led him to a life of crime: including theft, sexual assault and more. In telling the candid story of his downfall he exposes his own ruthlessness and lack of empathy. This book, using the diary as its base, is fascinating on so many levels. It is an insight into the criminal mind, ably examined by author June Slee. It is a glimpse into 19th–century aristocratic life–dress, food, pastimes and prejudices–from a servant's perspective (Ward was a groom to an officer gentleman). And it is a unique record, perhaps the only extant diary ever written during the Australian penal era whilst its convict writer was imprisoned. Plus, Ward records a particular moment in our history: not only life aboard prison hulks which he describes in detail but also the timing of his arrival in Sydney when convicts were no longer being accepted; he was sent straight to Norfolk Island where we get a fascinating insight into the rule of Captain Alexander Maconochie. Moconochie believed in a system of improvement for convicts based on a marks system for good behaviour rather than humiliating punishment. In this way, Ward gained access to writing materials for his diary. It's all in this book: love, history, convicts, crime and criminology, Norfolk Island ... The author weaves the diary – Ward’s own words – into her text seamlessly to tell a gripping story. Illustrated with over 150 images including paintings, photographs, documents, newspapers and drawings, the book includes text box features that elucidate aspects of life at the time: oyster bars and eating out, disease, smuggling, county justice, convict marriage, convict class and society, the end of transportation, and more. June Slee is an experienced writer and researcher, lecturer and practitioner in the field of criminology, particularly relating to the Australian convict era. Slee was immediately drawn to Ward’s story, not just for its insight into 19th-century crime and punishment, but also for its outstanding literary style and rarity as a diary that was written while its author was still incarcerated. Currently she is completing another book on convictism and has plans for two further books. June currently lives in New Zealand
The Crimes Of The First Fleet Convicts
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Author : John Cobley
language : en
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Release Date : 1970
The Crimes Of The First Fleet Convicts written by John Cobley and has been published by Angus & Robertson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First Fleet Surgeon
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Author : David Hill
language : en
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Release Date : 2015-05-01
First Fleet Surgeon written by David Hill and has been published by National Library of Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with History categories.
In a single leather-bound volume of 238 unlined pages of parchment, Surgeon Arthur Bowes Smyth describes his two-and-a-half year journey with the First Fleet from Portsmouth in England to the new colony in Australia and back. He is a frank, articulate and observant writer, and his diary, a treasure of the National Library of Australia, covers life at sea, stopovers in the slave port of Rio de Janeiro and the tropical paradise of Tahiti, and three months of early settlement in Australia. As surgeon to more than 100 convict women on the Lady Penrhyn, Bowes Smyth gives an insight into the plight of these women, sentenced to transportation, and their children. Their voyage was marked by seasickness, miscarriage, infant deaths, a diet of salted meat and dry hardtack biscuits, and cruel punishment from thumb screws to gagging and flogging with a cat-o’-nine-tails. When they finally set foot on Australian soil, their travails did not end, being set upon by drunken sailors and crew in a ‘scene of debauchery and riot’. Bowes Smyth also describes medical incidents that would make a modern reader squirm, from extracting a ‘jigger worm’ from his own foot to a scurvy outbreak which resulted in bleeding noses, contracted muscles, emaciated bodies and swollen, blackening limbs. There are moments of high drama when mountainous seas threaten to overturn the ship or when passengers fall overboard, as well as calm days at sea spotting porpoises, whales, seals and all manner of sea birds. Upon finally reaching Botany Bay, Bowes Smyth describes ‘the joy which possessed every breast upon so long wished for an event’. He details early encounters with Aboriginal people and the struggles in setting up the new colony, which was plagued from the outset by food shortages, outbreaks of disease and crop failures. He also describes the promiscuity and lax morals of the convicts with typical flair, declaring their audacity ‘not to be equalled amongst a set of villains in any other part of the globe’. In First Fleet Surgeon, author David Hill brings to life the voyage of the Lady Penrhyn and the early months of settlement at Port Jackson (modern-day Sydney) through Bowes Smyth’s colourful language and frank anecdotes. Each chapter includes a page of Bowes Smyth’s handwritten diary entries accompanied by a full transcript, and is richly illustrated with paintings, lithographs and maps from the National Library of Australia’s collection. Information boxes on subjects such as eighteenth-century medical knowledge, brewing beer on board, and a surgeon’s typical day provide context to Bowes Smyth’s story.
The Cambridge Economic History Of Australia
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Author : Simon Ville
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-08
The Cambridge Economic History Of Australia written by Simon Ville and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-08 with Business & Economics categories.
Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour. This account provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the nation's economic foundations, growth, resilience and future, in an engaging, contemporary narrative. It examines key themes such as the centrality of land and its usage, the role of migrant human capital, the tension between development and the environment, and Australia's interaction with the international economy. Written by a team of eminent economic historians, The Cambridge Economic History of Australia is the definitive study of Australia's economic past and present.
1788 The People Of The First Fleet
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Author : Don Chapman
language : en
Publisher: North Ryde, N.S.W. : Cassell Australia
Release Date : 1981
1788 The People Of The First Fleet written by Don Chapman and has been published by North Ryde, N.S.W. : Cassell Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is an illustrated Who's Who of Australia's First Fleet pioneers - the 1,300 men, women, and children who founded the first European settlement at Sydney Cove. (From verso).
Irish Convicts
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Author : Bob Reece
language : en
Publisher: Department of Modern History University College Dublin
Release Date : 1989
Irish Convicts written by Bob Reece and has been published by Department of Modern History University College Dublin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Australia categories.
Convicts
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Author : Michael Bogle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Convicts written by Michael Bogle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Australia categories.
Documents the controversial banishment of criminals, the harsh system of transportation, and difficult daily lives of the early convicts of Australia.