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Convicts in the colonies : transportation tales from Britain to Australia / Lucy Williams.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781526718372
	9781526756312
	1526718375
Author	Williams, Lucy (author.)
Title	Convicts in the colonies : transportation tales from Britain to Australia / Lucy Williams.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2018.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	©2018.
Description	xviii, 202 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	ch. 1 Sentencing, Selection, and the Wait: Pathways to Australia -- ch. 2 Disease, Danger, and Death: The Voyage to Australia -- ch. 3 Bound for Botany Bay: New South Wales 1787--1850 -- ch. 4 Sent Down South: Van Diemen's Land 1803--1856 -- ch. 5 The Hothouse of Humanity on the Swan River: Western Australia 1850--1868.
Summary	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 empire's 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.
Subjects	Exile (Punishment)
	Penal colonies
	Penal transportation
	Convicts -- Australia -- History
	Prisoners -- Australia -- History
	Australia -- History -- 19th century
Call number	2019.479

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Barcode	Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Status	Due Date
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