Convicts and colonial period

Print resources in the National Library

Convicts New South Wales

 First Fleet 1787-1788

The First Fleet : the real story - http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn5738526

Bushrangers : Australia's greatest self-made heroes - http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn5747534

Convicts and the colonies : a study of penal transportation from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and other parts of the British Empire / [by] A. G. L. Shaw - http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5740202

Convict workers : reinterpreting Australia's past / edited by Stephen Nicholas - http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18490742

The Australian people : an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins / edited by James Jupp - http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18741273

1788 : the brutal truth of the First Fleet : the biggest single overseas migration the world had ever seen / David Hill - http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33472105

The changing face of Australia : a century of immigration 1901-2000 / Kate Walsh - http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35299347

Other websites and resources you might find useful include:

http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/convicts/

http://www.genealogylinks.net/australia/all-australia/convic...etc

http://www.coraweb.com.au/convict.htm

Selected online databases

 

Case Study

NLAref53369 - Captain Arthur Phillip's uniform