Thousands of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish convicts transported to Australia, as well as people resisting colonial ...

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 ...

In the 19th century, Van Diemen's Land was considered a savage place at the ends of the earth, a brutal penal colony housed in an inhospitable wilderness where settlers scratched out a meagre ...