A century and a half after the last convict ship docked in Australia, new research is uncovering what happened to those who were transported.

Children of convicts transported to Australia grew up taller than their peers in the UK A new study highlights the stark difference in living conditions experienced by old- and new-world working ...

Based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally, itself inspired by real events, it focuses on Britain’s first penal colony in Australia in 1788 and explores how the convicts learn to find ...

Archaeological investigations of the convict systems that operated in Australia between 1788 and 1868 have invited a variety of interpretations ranging from exploration of ideologies of punishment and ...

Two decades ago, Robert Hughes published his memorable, sprawling The Fatal Shore about the founding of Australia from 1788 to 1868. Commonwealth does not attempt to displace The Fatal Shore as ...

Now, in the BBC Two serial Banished he is in the first convict colony, in 1788, at Port Jackson, Australia, as the chaplain, Rev Richard Johnson.

An interview with writer Jimmy McGovern about his new drama for BBC Two 'Banished', plus how the TV landscape has changed and his advice for other writers.

The arrival records of the First Fleet, and some of our most famous convicts, are now available on the web. Records of the earliest convict arrivals to Australia have been made available online, to ...

In Australia’s first century, from initial convict settlement in 1788 to the post gold rush decades, the economy grew rapidly. And despite all the changes going on, we found that during this ...

The Hougoumont, the last ship to take convicts from the UK to Australia, docked in Fremantle, Western Australia, on January 9, 1868 – 150 years ago. It brought an end to a process which ...

The Hougoumont, the last ship to take convicts from the UK to Australia, docked in Fremantle, Western Australia, on January 9, 1868 – 150 years ago. It brought an end to a process which deposited ...