Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...

Additionally, the prison acted as a transportation point for approximately 4,000 prisoners to Australia – then a penal colony – in ... exhibit describing the history of the prison and its ...

Transport tells the story of the impoverished Irish women and young girls (the so- called "undesirables") who were deported on The Whisper, a prison ship, to the Australian penal colonies.

The handwritten account of the people – and sheep – living around Sydney in 1800 is a fascinating snapshot of early colonial ...

At its heart, Banished is a story of survival. Though it is set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet ...

Vladimir Pereverzin was imprisoned for seven years in some of Russia's most notorious jails and penal colonies on fabricated charges of embezzlement and fraud. Pereverzin tells Business Insider ...

Meagher ended up in the United States just before the outbreak of the Civil War after escaping exile in the Australian penal colonies from ... book and seeing how history has a way of repeating ...

Nine-year-old me even teased my hair, donned my Mrs. Lovett costume for Halloween, and rambled on about Australian penal colonies and how dead fiddle ... Later, I realized how much history I had ...

Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...