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 ...

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 ...

These are the haunting faces of South Australia’s rich criminal history. From murder and theft to the “crime” of fortune-telling, delve into these fascinating records of our villainous past. His ...

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

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...