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 ...

Frances Knorr, like many other women in depression-hit 1800s Melbourne, ran an early form of childcare. But instead of visiting a loving home, the infants she was trusted with met a much darker fate.

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 ...

So it's not surprising that most people know little about this Australian ... history that is primarily British, going back to the early 1800s, when Tasmania was the site for numerous penal ...

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

The plaque in Plymouth pays tribute to the Tolpuddle Martyrs who were sent to an Australian penal colony after having sworn secret oaths to form a trade union. Four of the workers returned to the ...

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 ...

Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony by a court in Russia in August US basketball player Brittney Griner has been sent to a Russian penal colony in a remote region south ...

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 ...

As many were outraged over the sentence, even more people have expressed grave concern about Griner being transferred to the IK-2 penal colony in Mordovia to begin her sentence. The week Griner ...

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 ...

Alexei Navalny's penal colony is the strictest penal colony you ... Russian prisons have a long history of torture, both physical and psychological. Inmates are often abused by prisoners friendly ...