During the 18th century, England sought out remote locations to house prisoners as a solution to its overcrowded jails. In ...

But what really happened on January 26, 1788? The Royal Navy's Captain Arthur Phillip had been empowered under British law by King George III to establish a penal colony in NSW. The land he was ...

Known as Australia's greatest explorer, Charles Sturt found the continent by chance and fell in love. But Australia didn't love him back.

Of the roughly 760 convicts who arrived in Sydney in 1788 on the First Fleet, at least 15 were black. Between 1788 and 1842, about 80,000 male and female convicts were transported to NSW, of whom ...

An island off of Australia's mainland is full of history, prime snorkeling spots and idyllic beaches. It may be the country's best-kept secret.

Among the convicts that were transported to colonial Australia, there was a small group accused of very different crimes to the others. Of the roughly 162,000 convicts sent here from 1788 to 1868 ...

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 ...

Former prison Cascades Female Factory in Australia is today a grim reminder of the region’s convict ancestry The World Heritage site reopened this March with a $5 million state-of-the-art ...

ix, 344 pages ; 24 cm This is the poignant and complex story of the reunion of Irish families in Australia from 1788-1852, a hidden history full of human drama. The Story has never been told before ...

The very last ship packed with a cargo of convicts - the Hougoumont - docked at Fremantle, Western Australia, on January 9, 1868. Sixty-seven on board were Irish political prisoners.