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Laugesen, Amanda. Convict words: Language in early colonial Australia. Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Smith, Babette. Australia's birthstain: The startling legacy of the convict era. Allen & Unwin, 2009.

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Reid, Kirsty. Gender, crime and empire: Convicts, settlers and the state in early colonial Australia. Manchester University Press, 2007.

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Shelley, Jan, Cheryl Perry, and Pam Yates. Convict transportation to Port Macquarie: Men transported to Port Macquarie under colonial sentence, April 1821-April 1822. Port Macquarie and Districts Family History Society, 2006.

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Ian, Duffield, and Bradley James 1963-, eds. Representing convicts: New perspectives on convict forced labour migration. Leicester University Press, 1997.

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Daniels, Kay. Convict women. Allen & Unwin, 1998.

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Oldham, Wilfrid. Britain's convicts to the colonies. Library of Australian History, 1990.

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Carter, M. J. M. No convicts there: Thomas Harding's colonial South Australia. Thames & Hudson, 1998.

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McClelland, James. Convicts arriving in Australia. J. McClelland Research, 1994.

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Brand, Ian. The convict probation system: Van Diemen's Land, 1839-1854 : a study of the probation system of convict discipline ... Blubber Head Press, 1990.

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Lennox, Geoff. A visitor's guide to Port Arthur and the convict systems. Dormaslen Publications, 1996.

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Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish. Closing hell's gates: The death of a convict station. Allen & Unwin, 2008.

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Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish. Closing hell's gates: The death of a convict station. Allen & Unwin, 2008.

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Frost, Alan. Botany Bay mirages: Illusions of Australia's convict beginnings. Melbourne University Press, 1994.

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David, Young. Making crime pay: The evolution of convict tourism in Tasmania. Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1996.

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Tucker, Alan. Iron in the blood: Convicts and commandants in colonial Australia. Omninbus Books, 2002.

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Robson, L. L. The convict settlers of Australia. 2nd ed. Melbourne University Press, 1994.

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John, Booker. John Croaker: Convict embezzler. Melbourne University Press, 2000.

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John, Pearn, Carter Peggy 1920-, and Australian Society of the History of Medicine., eds. Islands of incarceration: Convict and quarantine islands of the Australian coast. Australian Society of the History of Medicine, 1995.

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Anderson, C. L. Lincolnshire convicts to Australia, Bermuda and Gibraltar: A study of two thousand convicts. Laece, 1993.

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Liz, Schroeder, ed. Catherine McMahon: A remarkable convict woman. Rosenberg, 2012.

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Tipping, Marjorie. Convicts unbound: The story of the Calcutta convicts and their settlement in Australia. Viking O'Neil, 1988.

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Kear, Averil. Bermuda dick: The true story of Forest of Dean convicts ... Lightmoor Press, 2002.

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Kear, Averil. Bermuda Dick: The true story of Forest of Dean convicts-. Lightmoor Press, 2002.

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Donohoe, James Hugh. The forgotten Australians: The non Anglo or Celtic convicts and exiles. J.H. Donohoe, 1991.

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Lorraine, Banks, Convict Trail Project, and Convict Trail Forum (1998), eds. Exploring the Great North Road: 1998 forum papers. Wirrimbirra Workshop, 1998.

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Michael, Flynn. Settlers and seditionists: The people of the convict ship Surprize, 1794. A. Lind, 1994.

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John, Grant. This beauteous, wicked place: The letters and journals John Grant, gentleman convict. National Library of Australia, 2000.

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Tardif, Phillip. Notorious strumpets and dangerous girls: Convict women in Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1829. Angus & Robertson, 1990.

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Robert, Hughes. The fatal shore: A history of the transportation of convicts to Australia 1787-1868. Folio Society, 1998.

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Robert, Hughes. The fatal shore: A history of the transportation of convicts to Australia 1787-1868. The Folio Society, 1998.

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Robert, Hughes. The fatal shore: A history of the transportation of convicts to Australia,1787-1868. Guild Publishing, 1987.

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Oxley, Deborah. Convict maids: The forced migration of women to Australia. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Martin, Megan. Settlers & convicts of the Bellona, 1793: A biographical dictionary. The Committee, 1992.

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Ekirch, A. Roger. Bound for America: The transportation of British convicts to the colonies, 1718-1775. Clarendon Press, 1987.

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1945-, Perry Cheryl, Yates Pamela 1945-, and Port Macquarie and Districts Family History Society, eds. Female convicts assigned to Port Macquarie from Parramatta Female Factory 7th February 1833 - 27th March 1833. Port Macquarie & Districts Family History Society, 2009.

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Great Convict Escapes In Colonial Australia. Simon and Schuster, 2003.

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Touchet, Alma. Australian Colonial Era : a Family with a Convict Colonial History: Impact of Colonisation on Australia. Independently Published, 2021.

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Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era. ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, 2011.

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Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era. Allen & Unwin, 2008.

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Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era. Allen & Unwin, 2008.

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Bound with an Iron Chain: The Untold Story of How the British Transported 50,000 Convicts to Colonial America. Pickpocket Publishing, 2011.

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Thompson, Andrew, Martin Hargreaves, John M. MacKenzie, and Kirsty Reid. Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia. Manchester University Press, 2017.

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Findlay, James. Caught on Screen. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765100554.

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From innocent criminals to radical revolutionaries, feisty feminists to manly pioneers, egalitarian settlers to violent invaders, Caught on Screen shows how over successive generations the shape-shifting convict emerged on screen as a potent historical symbol. Convicts loom large in Australian history. As transported criminals and the first European settlers, they have shackled the nation to a curious and contested origin story. Historians were largely silent on their exploits until the second half of the twentieth century, but before then a tradition of convict representation on screen appear

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Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia (Studies in Imperialism). Manchester University Press, 2007.

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T. Bly, Antonio, and Tamia Haygood. Escaping Servitude. Published by Lexington Books, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666993837.

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Escaping Servitude: A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia is an edited collection of runaway servant advertisements that appeared in newspapers in eighteenth-century Virginia. In addition to documenting the fugitive in the Chesapeake, it adds to our understanding of indentured servitude and provides valuable insights into an important chapter in American history. Escaping Servitude’s contribution to scholarship is threefold. First, it calls new attention to the scant scholarly body of work concerning indentured servitude; specifically, the work pertaining to

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Anderson, Clare. Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

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Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

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Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

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(Editor), Hamish Frost, and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Editor), eds. Chain Letters: Narrating Convict Lives. Melbourne University Publishing, 2002.

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