Some convicts in Australia escaped and found shelter, solidarity, and even family among the Indigenous groups they'd been ...

An AI rendition of what John Hughes may have looked like, based on a combination of prisoner records, historical records and photos of descendants [Unshackled/Roar Films] Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...

A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.

Born in 1782 in Surrey, England, Vaux was the son of a London butler and grandson of a lawyer. He was relatively well-educated, and worked as a draper’s apprentice, a clerk in a legal office and in ...

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 ...

I first encountered Clarke in a gift shop. My father, a peerless cray fisherman, docked his boat full of pots at the Port Arthur jetty and let us out to explore. It was the school holidays, sometime ...

CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Australians in the island state of Tasmania, a former colonial penal colony, believe they are modern convicts, imprisoned by steep transport costs. In a petition to national ...

An AI-generated reconstruction of an Anglesey woman is claimed to be one of the most realistic ever portrayals of a 19th Century convict shipped to Australia. Ann Williams, from Llanfechell, was ...