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Australia's convict system | Get.factual

Watch the Full History Documentary: The Story of Australia on the Get.factual channel. The Story of Australia - Part 1: <a ...
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Convict City: Tracing Sydney’s Penal Past

Most every nation has its legends of founders and pioneers, of promising shores and liberating revolutions. Australia, on the other hand, is a penal colony. Dating from the 1770s to the 1840s, its ...
The Conversation

‘Provocative in a good way’: John Hirst was a rigorous historian, independent thinker and passionate believer in Australia

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 ...
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History under the floorboards: Decoding the diets of institutionalized women in 19th century Sydney

Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks was built between 1817 and 1819 to house male convicts. The barracks is World Heritage Listed for its convict history, but is equally important for the story of 19th ...