About 70,000 British convicts were transported to Tasmania, then labelled on maps as Van Diemen's Land, between 1804 and 1850 — of those, 218 males and 15 females were Jewish. Of the many Jewish ...

A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land, by artist Simon Barnard, depicts the grisly reality of convict life in Tasmania through a series of painstakingly produced illustrations. A lack of visual ...

A cannibalistic morsel of Australian convict history, “Van Diemen’s Land” is a meaty meal only partly let down by its first course. Shooting primarily in mainland Victoria’s dense bushland ...

Conditions for convicts in Van Diemen's Land were tough. Food was rationed. Many prisoners spent time in penal stations such as Port Arthur, female houses of correction known as “female ...

Along with British and Irish convicts, 627 free men, women and children were transported to the 19th-century penal colonies of Van Diemen’s Land. Their stories, mostly forgotten, are moving.

Others would sail with their mothers on the convict transports, facing their own future in exile. And then there were the children yet unborn. Some convict women would become pregnant while they ...

For the initially unwilling dwellers in Van Diemen's Land, this was "not only the convicts' prison, it was their one source of hope". David Collins, first Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land ...

Conditions for convicts in Van Diemen’s Land were tough. Food was rationed. Many prisoners spent time in penal stations such as Port Arthur, female houses of correction known as “female ...

The true story of Australia's most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous escape into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness in 1882 alongside seven other convicts. (2009) The ...

Along with British and Irish convicts, 627 free men, women and children were transported to the 19th-century penal colonies of Van Diemen’s Land. Their stories, mostly forgotten, are moving.