A convict named Alexander Simpson, for example, was one of several black men transported to Van Diemen’s Land for their involvement in slave rebellions in Britain’s immensely lucrative West ...

Emma Cotton (or Cotterell) sailed into Sydney harbour on the Rubicon in 1833 as a free immigrant. A 32-year-old woman of independent means, she took ...

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.

The next Roundwood historical talk will focus on Van Diemen’s women and the history of transportation to Tasmania in Australia. Roundwood and District Historical, Folklore and Archaeological ...

At last, on 13 February 1840, the Buffalo reached Hobart Town in Van Diemen’s Land, where the prisoners from Upper Canada were herded off the ship three days later. According to the memoirs of an ...

A Cambodian court has convicted four land rights activists of plotting to provoke a peasant revolution by teaching farmers about class divisions, officials say.

Between 1822 and 1833, any re-offending convicts in Van Diemen’s Land were sent to Sarah Island (known as Langerrareroune by the local Toogee people) on Tasmania’s remote west coast. Described as an ...

Tasmania’s vast array of convict records will soon be brought to life in spectacular fashion with the launch of a new hi-tech Convict ... then known as Van Diemen’s Land – between 1804 ...

The men were a mix of British and Irish criminals (some early dialogue is in traditional gaelic), who were metaphorically chain-ganged within the harsh terrain and isolation of Van Diemen’s Land ...

Romeo Lane and environs, then, was the rough landing place for many of those known as the Vandemonians - ex-convicts from Van Diemen’s Land, or Tasmania, who flooded across Bass Strait in search ...

A historian struck “archive gold” with the discovery of a Van Diemen’s Land soldier’s diary from the mid-1820s, saying it showed why history should be prioritised, not cut, by universities ...