Media: BOOK - paperback, 230 pages
Author: L. Williams
Year: 2018
ISBN: 9781526756312
Other: b&w & colour photos, appendix, index
Publisher: Pen & Sword

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 empire’s 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.

Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Lives of the 'Legend'
1. Sentencing, Selection, and the Wait: Pathways to Australia
2. Disease, Danger and Death: The Voyage to Australia
3. Bound for Botany Bay: New South Wales 1787-1850
4. Send Down South: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1856
5. The Hothouse of Humanity on the Swan River: Western Australia 1850-1868
Conclusion
Appendix
Tracing Transportees: Resources for the Reader
Suggested Reading
Index