Download or read book Recovering Convict Lives written by Richard Tuffin and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Heritage-listed Port Arthur penitentiary is one of Australia's most visited historical sites, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year. Designed to incarcerate 480 men, between 1856 and 1877 thousands of convicts passed through it. In 2016, archaeologists began one of the largest ever excavations of an Australian convict site. Recovering Convict Lives: Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary makes their findings available to general readers for the first time. Extensively illustrated, it is a fascinating journey into the inner workings of the penal system and the day-to-day lives of Port Arthur convicts. Through the things they left behind - the sandstone base of a prison wall, a clay pipe discarded in a washroom, gambling tokens dropped between floorboards - this book tells their stories. Praise for Recovering Convict Lives 'In this richly illustrated volume readers will be taken on an archaeological tour of a lost world of work, leisure and punishment. A forensic reconstruction of one of Australia's most iconic buildings, Recovering Convict Lives peels away the layers of time to reveal the hidden history of everyday life in a penal station.' - Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, author of Closing Hell's Gates
Download or read book Port Arthur Sketchbook written by Patsy Adam-Smith and published by [Adelaide] : Rigby. This book was released on 1971 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawings by Arthur Phillips text by Patsy Adam-Smith.
Download or read book Convict era Port Arthur written by David W. Cameron and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthur focuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O'Hara Booth, a significant commandant of Port Arthur; Mark Jeffrey, a convict who became the grave digger on the Island of the Dead; and William Thompson, who arrived just as the new probation system started and who was forced to work in the treacherous coal mines. Convict-era Port Arthur will for the first time provide a comprehensive history of Port Arthur, its horrors and its changing role over a fifty-year period. In gripping detail, using the experiences and words of the convicts, soldiers and administrators who spent time there, David W. Cameron brings to life these deeply miserable days.
Download or read book His Natural Life written by Marcus Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early History of Port Arthur Texas written by William McKissick Timmerman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Visitor s Short History Guide to Port Arthur 1830 1877 written by Alex Graeme-Evans and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, this copiously illustrated third edition is designed as a resource for school teachers taking classes on excursions to the Port Arthur penal settlement, as well as for interested visitors. Examines the various phases in the development of the settlement, and innovations, such as separating juvenile offenders from adults, and the construction and operation of the 'New Model Prison'. Also describes the daily routine of convict life and the way in which this was affected by commanding officials at the settlement. Includes references. Ross is special project officer at the Port Arthur Historic Site. Graeme-Evans is a historian whose other publications include, 'Of Storms and Rainbows', and 'Tasmanian Rogues and Absconders'.
Download or read book A Short History Guide to Port Arthur 1830 77 written by Alexander L. Graeme-Evans and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Port Arthur written by Margaret Scott and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of April 28, 1996 in Port Arthur left Australia and the world stunned. How as a country do we ever recover, ever come to terms with what happened? How do the people who were there on the day, and those who continue to live and work at Port Arthur, move on from such a horrendous experience? Through the stories of people who were there and those left to pick up the pieces of their lives afterwards, a glimmer of hope emerges, and the possibility of healing and understanding. Writer and local resident Margaret Scott interviewed many of the people who were at Port Arthur on the day as well as local residents and families of the victims. This book contains their stories- simple acts of courage, stories of incredible bravery and inspiring tales of unexpected strength and a determination to remain hopeful in the face of indescribable horror. Honest and confronting but ultimately uplifting, this book should be read by every Australian.
Download or read book The History of Port Arthur written by Herschiel L. Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texaco s Port Arthur Works a Legacy of Spindletop and Sour Lake written by Elton N. Gish and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book details the 100-year history (1903 to 2003) of Texaco's Port Arthur refinery, Port Arthur Terminal, and Port Neches refinery. It contains 408 pages with more than 1200 photographs that show every aspect of running a refinery. Many of them have no"
Download or read book The Siege and Fall of Port Arthur written by W. Richmond Smith and published by London, E. Nash. This book was released on 1905 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quintus Servinton written by Henry Savery and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's convict past is never far away in Tasmania, where elegant stone bridges, the Georgian warehouses of Salamanca Place and the eerie ruins of Port Arthur are testimony to the back-breaking work and the hard lives endured by those sentenced to transportation. Quintus Servinton is another reminder of those cruel days. Subtitled "a tale, founded on incidents of real occurrence," the book is a loosely autobiographical story of a wayward fifth son, like Savery. Quintus Servinton (1830) is credited as being the first Australian novel, which, despite its dubious literary merit, gives it unique status. Henry Savery was born in 1791 in Somerset. He arrived in Hobart in 1825, having been sentenced to transportation for forgery. He might be completely unknown today had he not had a penchant for writing. Savery was released from servitude in 1832, having already published his major work. At Port Arthur, guides tell the story that he then sent for his wife, but she had an affair with a magistrate on the boat out, and returned to England, having been rejected by her husband. Savery was entrusted with banking work and tempted to re-offend. He appeared before the magistrate who had seduced his wife and was sent to the notorious penal settlement, Port Arthur, where he died in 1842.
Download or read book Port Arthur written by Mark Clayton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transcribing Tasmanian Convict Records written by Susan Hood and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most people who have an interest in a convict are likely to be able to obtain a conduct record, description list, indent, appropriation list, plus an assignment list or muster roll. These are the records that are the focus of this publication." --p. 7.
Download or read book Port Arthur Centennial History 1898 1998 written by Port Arthur Historical Society (Tex.) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains Sabine prehistory; Sabine Lake; Civil War; frontier vision; giants of the Sabine; tourism and leisure; celebrations; Pleasure Island and bridge; business, education; notable Port Arthurans; government and politics; churches and organizations and Port Arthur today.
Download or read book Betting Booze and Brothels written by Wanda A. Landry and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, gambling and prostitution thrived as elected officials either looked the other way or took money to keep quiet. That is, until 1960 when a swashbuckling young state legislator blew into town and spearheaded an intensive investigation into the rampant vice and governmental corruption that supported it. And, at a time when such things were virtually unheard of, he and his committee played it out on live television. When the dust finally cleared, the local governments of Jefferson County were turned inside out.
Download or read book Port Arthur Centennial History written by Michael Cate and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special centennial edition celebrating the history of Port Arthur, chronicling the city's story. It is filled with stories, information, and nearly one thousand photographs relating the economic, industrial, and cultural development of one of Texas' greatest cities.
