Convict Era Port Arthur

Author : David W. Cameron
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143795112
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convict-era Port Arthur written by David W. Cameron and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Arthur focuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O’Hara Booth, a significant commandant of Port Arthur; Mark Jeffrey, a convict who became the grave digger on the Island of the Dead; and William Thompson, who arrived just as the new probation system started and who was forced to work in the treacherous coal mines. Convict-era Port Arthur will for the first time provide a comprehensive history of Port Arthur, its horrors and its changing role over a fifty-year period. In gripping detail, using the experiences and words of the convicts, soldiers and administrators who spent time there, David W. Cameron brings to life these deeply miserable days.

Author : Alexander L. Graeme-Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646133065
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History Guide to Port Arthur, 1830-77 written by Alexander L. Graeme-Evans and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Danielle M. Maistry
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329490800
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Port Arthur written by Danielle M. Maistry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edwin Barnard
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642277095
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exiled written by Edwin Barnard and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Port Arthur convict photographs are a truly remarkable survival from Australias colonial past. Taken shortly before the infamous Tasmanian penal settlement closed for good, these images record the faces of men sent to Australia on convict ships between the 1820s and the 1850s. Now, for the first time, they are the subject of a fascinating new book from the National Library of Australia. Through its pages readers will come face to face with some of Australias reluctant pioneers and explore their often extraordinary lives. Using transportation records, trial documents, offi cial correspondence, prison files, local and overseas newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts, the author has pieced together biographies of some of the men and their female partners who found themselves transported to the colonies.

Author : Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957939400
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pack of Thieves? written by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Babette Smith
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459613465
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia's Birthstain written by Babette Smith and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that Australians are still misled by myths about their convict heritage? Why are so many family historians surprised to find a convict ancestor in their family trees? Why did an entire society collude to cover up its past? Babette Smith traces the stories of hundreds of convicts over the 80 years of convict transportation to Australia....

Author : Marcus Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book His Natural Life written by Marcus Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Clayton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780949457424
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Port Arthur written by Mark Clayton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex Graeme-Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646259963
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Visitor's Short History Guide to Port Arthur 1830-1877 written by Alex Graeme-Evans and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, this copiously illustrated third edition is designed as a resource for school teachers taking classes on excursions to the Port Arthur penal settlement, as well as for interested visitors. Examines the various phases in the development of the settlement, and innovations, such as separating juvenile offenders from adults, and the construction and operation of the 'New Model Prison'. Also describes the daily routine of convict life and the way in which this was affected by commanding officials at the settlement. Includes references. Ross is special project officer at the Port Arthur Historic Site. Graeme-Evans is a historian whose other publications include, 'Of Storms and Rainbows', and 'Tasmanian Rogues and Absconders'.

Author : Ian Brand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780949457356
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Port Arthur, 1830-1877 written by Ian Brand and published by . This book was released on 1992* with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, since it closed in 1877, Port Arthur has been the subject of much -representation. Phrases like "brutal treatment" and "savage punishment" are still commonly used in talking and writing about the penal settlement, and, as a result, visitors have received a distorted view of Port Arthur and the treatment which prisoners there received. This is not to say that punishment was not severe. It was, but it must be remembered that prisoners sent to the penal settlements were normally hardened criminals. This book has been prepared to present a balanced view of Port Arthur and its allied stations on Tasman Peninsula. It is based on original documents of 1830 - 1877, wherever possible, rather than the faulty memories of visitors recorded many years