The Programme de recherche en démographie historique (Historical Demography
Research Programme)(PRDH), founded in 1966 and based at the Département de …

Between 1788 and 1868 over 160,000 convicts were transported to Britain's Australian
penal colonies. Subsequent generations in the Australian colonies blamed societal ills on …

Family and local community historians have always made use of criminal justice records.
Increasingly available as digital files, these documents are accessible to anyone with access …

This paper examines the significance of parental loss for a sample of young convicts (aged
under 25 years) transported from English and Irish ports to Tasmania in the mid-nineteenth …

In recognition of their international importance, the convict records of Australia were placed
on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2007 [1]. This overview provides an …

This paper explores the transformative power of digital humanities in teaching family history
online to large cohorts of Australian domestic students. It takes as a case study a unit …

This thesis analyses the process of adapting an historical research project ‚Äö-the Founders
and Survivors Project ‚Äö-for drama and web-series, a process characterised as the creative …