An AI rendition of what John Hughes may have looked like, based on a combination of prisoner records, historical records and photos of descendants [Unshackled/Roar Films] Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...

Both strategic and commercial motives guided the British government’s choice of New South Wales as a convict colony.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fate dealt Honorah Sullivan a bad hand when she was found guilty of arson in the mid-19th century and put on a British convict ship bound for modern-day Tasmania. But more than 160 ...

CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Australians in the island state of Tasmania, a former colonial penal colony, believe they are modern convicts, imprisoned by steep transport costs. In a petition to national ...

When the Tasmanian convicts seized the colonial Cyprus brig and made a daring dash for freedom across the Pacific, they ...

An AI-generated reconstruction of an Anglesey woman is claimed to be one of the most realistic ever portrayals of a 19th Century convict shipped to Australia. Ann Williams, from Llanfechell, was ...

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called for a re-examination of Australia’s history in a new book that insists the nation has broken with its convict past to become one of the “freest, fairest ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has helped researchers generate what they believe could have been the faces of Welsh convicts sent to Australia in the 19th Century. The lives of 60 criminals deported ...