Presents the story of an extraordinary period in British criminal history, brought to life through unique surviving records held by the UK National Archives.
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Presents the story of an extraordinary period in British criminal history, brought to life through unique surviving records held by the UK National Archives.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. 272pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw & col ills. Blue cloth in jacket. As new. Follows the voyages of convicts sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay, Norfolk Island, and Van Diemen's Land. Considers the consequences-intended and unintended-of transportation and brings out the real dimensions of a system in which, for example, only one convict was formally executed on a convict ship though hundreds died through shipwreck, disease and violence; 13000 children werre transported to Van Diemens Land; and many convicts had their first access to education and medical help on the convict ships.