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  • John Croaker

    Convict Embezzler

    by Dr John Booker, Professor Russell Craig ...
    John Croaker's life was an extraordinarily fascinating one. Born in humble but respectable circumstances in Canterbury, Kent, he was principal clerk at the Isle of Thanet Bank in Margate. In 1815 he apparently became unhinged and began cheating in the bank's ledgers. After absconding to Calais with some stolen assets, he was convicted of embezzling the proceeds of a bill of exchange.Croaker was ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Kerry Girls

    Emigration and the Earl Grey Scheme

    by Kay Moloney Caball ...
    As part of the controversial Earl Grey Scheme, this is the true story of the Kerry girls who were shipped to Australia from the four Kerry workhouses of Dingle, Kenmare, Killarney and Listowel in 1849 and 1850.Leaving behind scenes of destitution and misery, the girls, some of whom spoke only Irish, set off to the other side of the world without any idea of what lay ahead. This book tells of their ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Australia's Birthstain

    The startling legacy of the convict era

    by Babette Smith ...
    Why is it that Australians are still misled by myths about their convict heritage? Why are so many family historians surprised to find a convict ancestor in their family trees? Why did an entire society collude to cover up its past?Babette Smith traces the stories of hundreds of convicts over the 80 years of convict transportation to Australia. Putting a human face on the convicts' experience, she ... Read more

    $14.89 CAD

  • Heiresses

    Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean

    by Miranda Kaufmann ...
    From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to India, Australia and back to England, this is the story of the heiresses—and the role they played in the history of enslavement.Through the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it was a fact universally acknowledged that any man in want of a great fortune ought to find himself a Caribbean heiress. Their assets, the product of the exploitation of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus

    by Stephen Dando-Collins ...
    Sir Henry Parkes: Father of Federation, Premier of NSW, Statesman, Visionary, Political Leader, Poet, HumanistMay 27, 2015 brings the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes. After he died, the London Times described him as 'a colonial colossus.'Henry Parkes received little schooling and worked on a rope-walk, breaking stones, as an ivory and bone turner, ironmonger, labourer and on the ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • Adventurers And Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus

    The Great Scottish Exodus

    by Margery Harper, Dr Marjory Harper ...
    'The Scots have always been a restless people', says leading Scottish historian Marjory Harper 'but in the nineteenth century their restlessness exploded into a sustained surge of emigration that carried Scotland almost to the top of a European league table of emigrant exporting countries.' This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of that 'Great Exodus'. In many ways it challenges ... Read more

    $13.29 CAD

  • Mansions of Misery

    A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison

    by Jerry White ...
    For Londoners of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, debt was a part of everyday life. But when your creditors lost their patience, you might be thrown into one of the capital’s most notorious jails: the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison.In Mansions of Misery, acclaimed chronicler of the capital Jerry White introduces us to the Marshalsea’s unfortunate prisoners – rich and poor; men and women; ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A New Life in our History: the settlement of Australia and New Zealand: volume I The Fatal Shore ? (1780s to 1830s)

    by Justin Cahill ...
    A New Life in our History offers a fresh view of Australian and New Zealand history. It tells, for the first time, the epic story of their settlement from the perspective of ordinary people.Beginning with the arrest of Solomon Bockerah and his transportation to Sydney on the notorious Second Fleet, it follows the spectacular rise and fall of the emancipist Sydney merchant John Laurie, the arrival ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A New Life in our History: the settlement of Australia and New Zealand: volume II Paradise Found ? (1830s to 1890s)

    by Justin Cahill ...
    This is the second part of A New Life in Our History, an account of the settlement of Australia and New Zealand told from the perspective of ordinary people.By the 1830s, reformers opposed to transportation were promoting a more enlightened solution to Britain's social and economic difficulties: systematic colonisation. The focus of their work included New Zealand, ruled by the Māori and already ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surplus People

    by Jim Rees ...
    The Great Famine in Ireland was a catastrophe of immense proportions. Eviction, emigration and death from starvation were widespread. Landlords, eager to dispose of 'surplus' tenants, engaged in 'assisted passages', whereby tenants were given financial incentives to emigrate. The clearances of uneconomic tenants from the 85,000-acre Coolattin Estate in County Wicklow by Lord Fitzwilliam were the ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Famine

    The 1822 Crisis in County Leitrim

    by Gerard MacAtasney ...
    In the summer of 1822 a bad potato crop and limited employment opportunities created famine conditions in the west and south-west of Ireland. The Other Famine is the first book to examine these events, and specifically their implications for County Leitrim. Beginning with an overview of life in the county from 1800 to 1821, this book looks at landlord–tenant relationships, the standard of living ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Susannah Holmes & Henry Kable, Australia's First Dynasty Family

    by Michael Chandler ...
    The Marines of the First Fleet were the keeper of law and order upon the original settlement of the convict colony at Port Jackson in 1788. However only six years later one Henry Kable was appointed to the position of Chief Constable of the colony.Henry Kable createda number of firsts which included his marriage with fellow-convict Susannah Holmes alongside four other couples in the first marriage ... Read more

    $5.04 CAD