Thousands of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish convicts transported to Australia, as well as people resisting colonial ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fate dealt Honorah Sullivan a bad hand when she was found guilty of arson in the mid-19th century and put on a British convict ship bound for modern-day Tasmania. But more than 160 ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has helped researchers generate what they believe could have been the faces of Welsh convicts sent to Australia in the 19th Century. The lives of 60 criminals deported ...

Australia was, for many decades, the open-air prison of Britain's criminals. Most were convicted of petty offenses. A quick perusal through the records finds convicts transported for stealing a coat, ...

AUSTRALIA was one of the world’s most tattooed nations when convicts were inked with symbols which carried secret meanings. Of the 160,000 convicts transported to Australia, at least 37 per cent of ...

The British armed brig Emu, commanded by Lt Alexander Bissett, was a converted merchant vessel sailing from England to Australia to be under control of the governor of NSW, Lachlan Macquarie. But on ...