Tasmania's convict heritage has been officially recognized by UNESCO. On July 31, 11 Australian convict sites, five of which are located in the southernmost state of Tasmania, are to be inscribed on ...

UNESCO inscribed the Australian Convict Sites on the World Heritage List.The 11 sites across New South Wales, Tasmania ...

The property includes a selection of eleven penal sites, among the thousands established by the British Empire on Australian soil in the 18 th and 19 th centuries. The sites are spread across ...

Don’t try searching for Sydney’s grisly convict past on a sunny day. I was wandering the Australian city’s historic waterfront district, known as the Rocks, down one of the original lanes hand-hewn by ...

During the 18th century, England sought out remote locations to house prisoners as a solution to its overcrowded jails. In 1788, England's First Fleet arrived in the Eora nation—now known as Sydney, ...

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 ...

Five stages in the history of regulation are derived from the literature as a starting framework for this essay. These stages are outlined in the first section. This five-stage model is then ...

When British authorities deported Irish rebels to their Australian penal colonies, they also exported a tradition of anti-colonial resistance. In March 2025, the severed head of King George V made a ...