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The floating brothel
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Sian Rees |
"In July 1789, 237 women convicts left England for Sydney Cove in Australia's New South Wales on board a ship called the Lady Julian. The women, most of them petty criminals, were destined to provide… |
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The ship thieves
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Siân Rees |
The cunningly resourceful Porter and nine other convicts escaped, hijacked a ship and crossed the perilous South Pacific to Chile, passing themselves off as shipwrecked mariners, until betrayal led t… |
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Convicts of the Eleanor
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David Kent |
Focuses on the men of the convict transport Eleanor, which arrived in NSW in 1831. They were all from the counties of Berkshire, Dorset Hampshire and Wiltshire and were transported for their part in … |
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