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Cleansing The Colony: Transporting Convicts From New Zealand To Van Diemen's LandStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionSecondhand. Everyone knows Australia was once a penal colony, but few realise that New Zealand prisoners were sent there. During the mid-nineteenth century at least 110 people were transported from New Zealand to serve time as convict labourers in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). AwardsLonglisted for 2018 Ockham NZ Book Awards - The Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction. Author descriptionKristyn Harman is a New Zealander living in Australia. She is the author of Aboriginal Convicts, which won the Australian Historical Associations Kay Daniels Award for convict history in 2014. Kristyn studied history at Massey University and undertook doctoral research at the University of Tasmania where she now lectures in the School of Humanities. Her expertise spans topics across the Tasman Sea and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, largely focusing on the Australasian colonies and the British Empire. Cleansing the Colony is her second book. |