Tourist and Hobart Penitentiary volunteer's chance discovery of shared convict history

A  Victorian tourist has been "blown away" after discovering a connection with a volunteer at the Hobart Penitentiary, with ...
Neos Kosmos

From Hydra to the Hunter: The Hydriot Pirate who rewrote an Australian family’s story

Author Shelley Dark retraces the real-life adventure of Ghikas Voulgaris—pirate, convict, lover—and restores a forgotten ...
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Faces of Welsh convicts sent to Australia recreated by AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has helped researchers generate what they believe could have been the faces of Welsh convicts sent to Australia in the 19th Century. The lives of 60 criminals deported ...
The Conversation

‘Provocative in a good way’: John Hirst was a rigorous historian, independent thinker and passionate believer in Australia

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 ...
Reuters

Book Talk: Pack of Thieves? Convict-era Australia stacks the deck

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fate dealt Honorah Sullivan a bad hand when she was found guilty of arson in the mid-19th century and put on a British convict ship bound for modern-day Tasmania. But more than 160 ...