Convict Lives at the Ross Female Factory by Lucy Frost
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
The Ross Female Factory, though smaller than its city counterparts, offered the full range of services: a hiring yard, punishment blocks, workshops, solitary cells, a chapel, a hospital and the Nursery where babies would live until old enough to go to the Orphan Schools. This book tells some of their st ...Show more
Closing Hell's Gates - Death of a convict station by MAXWELL-STEWART Hami
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In October 1827, nine convicts who had endured years of unimaginable cruelty at the hands of the system opted for "state-assisted" escape. Five terrified witnesses--their hands and feet bound--were forced to watch as the chained convicts seized Constable George Rex and drowned him in the tannin-staine ...Show more
The Huon Pine Story: The History of Harvest and Use of a Unique Timber by Garry J Kerr
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Child Convicts by Net Brennan
$17.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Our Stories
At the age of seven, children in eighteenth century Britain were tried in court like adults. Some, as young as nine, were transported to the colonies. Their names may not be familiar, but one of these child convicts would become the first person hanged in Australia, another would be celebrated on our tw ...Show more
Shipwrecks of the Furneaux Group by Graeme Broxam; Mike Nash
$20.00 AUD
Category: History
Stories of shipwrecks and other maritime incidents in the islands of eastern Bass Strait from 1797 to the early 2000s.
Convict-era Port Arthur : Misery of the Deepest Dye by David W. Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthurfocuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O'Hara Booth, a signif ...Show more