Convicts in the Colonies (ePub)
Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia
(Sprache: Englisch)
"A book that looks deeply into the lives of some of the convicts who were sentenced in court to be transported to Botany Bay." -Pirates and Privateers
In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of...
In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of...
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"A book that looks deeply into the lives of some of the convicts who were sentenced in court to be transported to Botany Bay." -Pirates and Privateers
In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported beyond the seas. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empires most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation to Australia-from the first to the final fleet.
Using the latest original research, Convicts in the Colonies reveals a fascinating century-long history of British convicts unlike any other. Covering everything from crime and sentencing in Britain and the perilous voyage to Australia, to life in each of the three main penal colonies-New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia-this book charts the lives and experiences of the men and women who crossed the world and underwent one of the most extraordinary punishments in history.
"An easily read, fascinating history, telling the tales of the 'recidivist' convicts in the 18th and 19th centuries." -The Essex Family Historian
In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported beyond the seas. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empires most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation to Australia-from the first to the final fleet.
Using the latest original research, Convicts in the Colonies reveals a fascinating century-long history of British convicts unlike any other. Covering everything from crime and sentencing in Britain and the perilous voyage to Australia, to life in each of the three main penal colonies-New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia-this book charts the lives and experiences of the men and women who crossed the world and underwent one of the most extraordinary punishments in history.
"An easily read, fascinating history, telling the tales of the 'recidivist' convicts in the 18th and 19th centuries." -The Essex Family Historian
Autoren-Porträt von Lucy Williams
Lucy Williams is an experienced researcher with a PhD from the University of Liverpool. She specialises in the history of crime, women and gender, and the social history of the nineteenth century. For more than three years she has been part of the 'Digital Panopticon', a project tracing 90,000 men and women from London either imprisoned in England or transported to Australia. It is her work on this project which inspired Convicts in the Colonies. Her first book, Wayward Women, was published with Pen and Sword in 2016.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lucy Williams
- 2020, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: PEN & SWORD BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 1526718391
- ISBN-13: 9781526718396
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.01.2020
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