Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which tend to depict convict women as a peculiarly oppressed group, gend
Over the last few decades, the study of texts has increasingly occupied centre-stage within the study of empire. A now voluminous literature emphasizes the ways in which such ‘texts’ represented and o
Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism encourages readers to think more critically and analytically about the archives in which they work as well as about their research methods, their source
Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism encourages readers to think more critically and analytically about the archives in which they work as well as about their research methods, their source
