Highlight: Van Diemen’s Women: A History of Transportation to Tasmania

On 2 September 1845, the convict ship ‘Tasmania’ left Kingstown Habour for Van Diemen’s Land with 138 convicts, and their 35 children. This book focusses on two particular women on this voyage (Eliza Davis and Margaret Butler), their life before, the trials and transportation, as well as life in VDL …

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