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Congratulations to AHA member Tim Causer, who has edited and introduced a new scholarly edition of the earliest Australian convict narrative, Memorandoms by James Martin, the only extant first-hand account of the escape from Australia by transported convicts James Martin, William and Mary Bryant and their two infant children, and six other male convicts on the night Read more …
Historian Babette Smith outlines Australia’s penal conditions and the prisoners’ reactions to them, as the crucial factors behind the making of the Australian working class.
Kiera Lindsey discusses her new book The Convict’s Daughter with Babette Smith.
Author Kiera Lindsey ‘In Conversation’ with ABC Radio National Arts Today’s Michael Cathcart to launch The Convict’s Daughter: The Scandal that Shocked a Colony (Allen & Unwin). RSVP on 03 9819 1917.
AHA member Kiera Lindsey will be ‘In Conversation’ with ABC Radio National Arts Today’s Michael Cathcart at 6pm on Tuesday 24 May 2016 at Hawthorn Readings Bookstore, Melbourne, discussing her book The Convict’s Daughter: The Scandal that Shocked a Colony (Allen & Unwin).
Author Kiera Lindsey ‘In Conversation’ with ABC Radio’s Sonya Feldhoff to launch The Convict’s Daughter: The Scandal that Shocked a Colony (Allen & Unwin). Registrations required.
Kiera Lindsey’s The Convict’s Daughter: The Scandal that Shocked a Colony (Allen & Unwin) concerns a colonial scandal that was unleashed when the daughter of two successful emancipists attempted to elope with the wayward son of Dr John Kinchela, the previous Attorney General of New South Wales. It is a wildly improbable but true melodrama Read more …
William Cuffay, grandson of an African slave and son of a West Indian slave joined the Chartist movement in 1839 and soon became well known for his oratory and sense of humour. Arrested, tried and convicted, for his participation in a planned uprising in London, he was sentenced to transportation for life in Tasmania. Cuffay’s Read more …