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Hobart from Old Wharf by John Skinner Prout, (1844). Allport Library and Museum, State Library of Tasmania

Thieves, needlewomen, Aboriginal warriors and a ten‑year‑old boy: the free people transported as convicts to Van Diemen’s Land

Kristyn Harman, University of Tasmania and Victoria Nagy, University of Tasmania

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.

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