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From British Courtrooms to the Edge of the World: Life on the Convict Transport Ships and the Birth of Australia
It’s hard to truly grasp what it must have felt like to stand on the deck of a wooden convict transport ship in May 1787, looking back at...


The Strange Cases of John Babbacombe Lee and Joseph Samuel The Men Who Could Not Be Hanged
While the grim history of capital punishment is filled with clinical efficiency and tragic inevitability there are also rare and strange...
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