Repression, Reform & Resillience: a History of the Cascades Female Factory by Alison Alexander
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The Cascades Female Factory was the “largest institution for convict women in Van Diemen’s Land”. Repression, Reform & Resilience tells the story of the women who lived inside its walls.
Convict Lives at the Cascades Female Factory Volume 2 by Alison Alexander; Alice Meredith Hodgson
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
he fascinating lives of 29 female convicts who spent time in the Cascades Female Factory, between 1829 and 1855, are the subject of this book. The women range from young offenders to prosperous matriarchs; from tough customers to those educated enough to write letters home. Some got through the convict ...Show more
White Rag Burning - Irish Women Committing Arson to Be Transported by Dianne Snowden
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Between 1841 and 1853, nearly 250 women were transported from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land on the other side of the world for committing arson. During the Great Famine, the number of Irish women transported for arson increased dramatically. In comparison, only small numbers of other convicts were trans ...Show more
Esther: The Extraordinary True Story of the First Fleet Girl Who Became First Lady of the Colony by Jessica North
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The little-known rags to riches love story of a convict girl who arrived in Australia on the First Fleet. Much like another, better-known colonial woman, Elizabeth Macarthur, Esther successfully managed her husband's property and became a significant figure in the new colony.
William Sorell in Van Dieman's Land: Lieutenant-Governor, 1817-24: A Golden Age? by Leonie C. Mickleborough
$14.99 AUD
$25.00 (40% off)
Category: History
Provides examination of the Sorell administration. In this study, the author tests the claim of Sorell's contemporary supporters that he presided over the 'Golden Age' of Van Diemen's Land, and assesses his character, both public and private.
Tasmania's Convicts by Alison Alexander
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies. Following the lives of do ...Show more
Imperial Mud - The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England. A population of proud indigenous people fight for generations to preserve their homelands against an expanding empire - an invasion justified as being necessary for 'progress'.After centuries of resistance, their culture and com ...Show more