http://hdl.handle.net/1983/973 2013-06-18T10:05:54Z 2013-06-18T10:05:54Z Reid, KM http://hdl.handle.net/1983/1595 2010-04-16T23:35:20Z 2010-04-16T16:28:18Z

Australia bound: convict voyaging, 1788-1868 Reid, KM Between 1788 and 1868, over 900 ships left Britain and Ireland with around 168,000 convicts bound for the British Australian penal colonies. Strikingly little scholarly attention has been paid either to the organisation of the ships prior to departure or to convict and other experiences of the voyages. This research project seeks to begin to fill that gap: its aim is to write an experiential history of convict voyaging. Sackler-Caird Fellowship application

2010-04-16T16:28:18Z Reid, KM http://hdl.handle.net/1983/989 2007-11-13T00:35:15Z 2007-11-12T12:28:00Z

The horrors of convict life: British radical visions of the Australian penal colonies Reid, KM In September 1856, the Chartist leader John Frost returned to Britain from almost two decades of exile in Van Diemen's Land. He was greeted by mass crowds and immediately embarked upon a lecture tour to denounce the Horrors of Convict Life. The lectures, and their accompanying pamphlets, presented an image of the penal colonies as sites of moral outrage and manly physical dissolution. This article explores the meanings of Frost's lectures - and particularly his emphasis upon sodomy and 'unnatural' offences - by contending that they are best understood, not as straightforward, factual accounts of the colonies, but against the backdrop of nineteenth-century British radicalism and the codes of masculinity which informed it. Preprint of a journal article to be published by Berg in Cultural and Social History (1478-0038).

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