Penal History: Australia

Books
BATESON, Charles. The Convict Ships 1787-1868. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1969 [2nd ed.]

Britain's Convicts to the Colonies. (ed.) W. Hugh Oldham. Sydney, N.S.W: Library of Australian History, 1990.

BROOKE, Alan and BRANDON, David. Bound for Botany Bay: British convict voyages to Australia. Kew, [England]: National Archives, 2005.

Convict Workers: reinterpreting Australia's past. [ed]. Stephen Nicholas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

DAMOUSI, Joy. Depraved and Disorderly: female convicts, sexuality and gender in colonial Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

DANIELS, Kay. Convict Women St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1998.

HIRST, J.B. Convict Society and Its Enemies: a history of early New South Wales. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1983.

HIRST, Warwick. Great Convict Escapes in Colonial Australia. East Roseville: Kangaroo Press, 2003 [rev. ed].

JORDAN, Robert John. The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788-1840. Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency House, 2002.

KERCHER, Bruce. Debt, Seduction and Other Disasters: the birth of civil law in convict New South Wales. Leichhardt, N.S.W.: The Federation Press, 1996.

KERR, James Semple. Design for Convicts: an account of design for convict establishments in the Australian Colonies during the transportation era. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1984.

LEVELL, David. Tour to Hell: convict Australia's great escape myths. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 2008.

LLOYD Helen V. Exiled: colonial prisoners banished from NSW. Panania, NSW: John and David Lloyd, 2004.

McINTYRE, Perry. Free Passage: the reunion of Irish convicts and their families in Australia, 1788-1852. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011.

NEAL, David. The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: law and power in early New South Wales. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Representing Convicts: new perspectives on convict forced labour migration. [eds]. Ian Duffield and James Bradley. New York: Leicester University Press, 1997.

RITCHIE, John. Punishment and Profit: the reports of Commissioner John Bigge on the Colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-23, their origins, nature and significance. Melbourne: Heinemann, 1970.

ROBINSON, Portia. The Women of Botany Bay: a reinterpretation of the role of women in the origins of Australian society. Sydney: Macquarie Library, 1988.

SHAW, A.G.L. Convicts and the Colonies. A Study of Penal Transportation from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and other parts of the British Empire. London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [See: Chapter 4 'Lachlan Macquarie'.]

Journal Articles

ATKINSON, Alan. "The Free-Born Englishman Transported: Convict Rights as a Measure of Eighteenth-Century Empire." Past and Present No. 144, August 1994, pp.88-115.

EVANS, Raymond and THORPE, William. "Commanding Men: Masculinities and the Convict System." Journal of Australian Studies No.56, 1998, pp.17-34.

LAUGESEN, Amanda. "The Politics of Language in Convict Australia, 1788-1850." Journal of Australian Colonial History Vol. 4 No. 1 April 2002, pp.17-40.

NEAL, David. "Free Society, Penal Colony, Slave Society, Prison?" Historical Studies Vol. 22, No.89, October 1987, pp.497-518.

ROBBINS, Bill. "Governor Macquarie's Job Descriptions and the Bureaucratic Control of the Convict Labour Process." Labour History No.96, May 2009, pp.1-18.

ROBBINS, W.M. "The Lumber Yards: a Case Study in the Management of Convict Labour, 1788-1832." Labour History No. 79, November 2000, pp.141-161.

ROBBINS, W.M. "Management and Resistance in Convict Work Gangs, 1788-1830." Journal of Industrial Relations No. 45 No. 3, September 2003, pp.360-377.

ROBBINS, W.M.. "Spacial Escape and the Hyde Park Barracks" Journal of Australian Colonial History Vol. 7, 2005, pp.81-96.

ROBBINS, W.M. "The Supervision of Convict Gangs in New South Wales 1788-1830." Australian Economic History Review. 2004 Vol. 44, No. 1, pp.79-100.

ROBERTS, David A. and GARLAND, Daniel. "The Forgotten Commandant: James Wallis and the Newcastle Penal Settlement, 1816-1818." Australian Historical Studies Volume 41, Issue 1 March 2010 pp.5-24.

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