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Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date: 2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-11-2017
DOI: 10.1007/S12024-017-9938-6
Abstract: Alexander Pearce was an Irish convict incarcerated on Sarah Island on the west coast of Van Diemen's Land (modern day Tasmania, Australia) in 1822, following his transportation to the colony from the United Kingdom for seven years in 1819. On two occasions he escaped from the island, in September 1822 and again in November 1823, and was only able to survive the harsh conditions by killing and consuming his fellow escapees. Given that Pearce utilized the only sustenance that was at hand (i.e. his five companions), and that there was a temporal separation between the two episodes, this may represent a separate category of anthropophagy, that of serial opportunistic cannibalism.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-09-2017
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.1017/SSH.2020.14
Abstract: Over the last four decades, historians and social scientists have become increasingly interested in the way in which information about stature might be used to explore the impact of environmental factors on the physical growth and well-being of past populations. A particular problem encountered by many researchers is that height data is only available for selected populations, typically military recruits or those admitted to correctional institutions. Evidence from Australian military and prison records demonstrate how the two social groups, soldiers and prisoners, differed from each other and from the wider population in terms of age, birthplace, occupation, and stature. Different patterns of observable characteristics conceal additional differences in intergenerational experience. We trace male prisoners and soldiers born between 1870 and 1899 in Tasmania to their birth records and thence to the marriages of their parents. This allows us to contrast social and occupational change from father to son for both prisoners and soldiers. We conclude that evidence arising from these institutionalized populations can be used to estimate wider societal trends, although caution needs to be exercised.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-08-2016
Publisher: OpenEdition
Date: 22-06-2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 09-2006
DOI: 10.2307/4486251
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-10-2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.1017/SSH.2020.18
Abstract: Historians and social scientists routinely, and inevitably, rely on sources that are unrepresentative of the past. The articles in this special issue of the journal illustrate the widespread prevalence of selection bias in historical sources, and the ways in which historians negotiate this challenge to reach useful conclusions from valuable, if imperfect sources.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-06-2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 07-07-2016
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199352333.013.33
Abstract: Many societies have either transported convicted prisoners to a place of coerced labor or sold them as slaves. From the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries several European states made extensive use of penal transportation to supply labor to overseas colonies. A practice that operated in parallel to the Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades, penal transportation was applied to both prisoners sentenced in European courts and those convicted in the colonies. Emerging at the same time as galley service and the workhouse, transportation expanded the range of sentencing options available to early modern states. Although criticized by European penal reformers in the nineteenth century because of its close association with slavery and other exploitative labor extraction systems, penal transportation survived into the twentieth century, largely because it was comparatively cheap and provided a means of punishing both metropolitan and colonial offenders.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2021
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2003
DOI: 10.2307/27515913
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.2104/HA090066
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-10-2017
Abstract: On the morning of December 17, 1827, nine convicts were executed by public hanging in Hobart Town, the capital of the British colony of Van Diemen's Land (now the Australian state of Tasmania). Two months previously they had drowned senior Constable George Rex on Small Island, which was part of the penal settlement at Macquarie Harbor, in front of five bound and gagged witnesses. They offered no defence at their trial. Examination of the Tasmanian colonial convict records shows that "suicide by lottery" involved convicts choosing two men, one to die and the other to kill him. The witnesses would earn a respite when taken away for the trial, and the murderer would be executed. "Death by gallows" could be considered a nineteenth-century version of an orchestrated suicide reminiscent of more modern "death by cop." This category of "judicial" murder-suicide expands the range of contemporary classifications of dyadic deaths.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 05-11-2011
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2002
DOI: 10.2307/27516840
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-08-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2015
DOI: 10.1111/AEHR.12062
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 30-07-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 05-11-2013
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-06-2023
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2018
Abstract: This paper presents an interdisciplinary project that uses archaeological and historical sources to explore the formation of a penal landscape in the Australian colonial context. The project focuses on the convict-period legacy of the Tasman Peninsula (Tasmania, Australia), in particular the former penal station of Port Arthur (1830–1877). The research utilises three exceptional data series to examine the impact of convict labour on landscape and the convict body: the archaeological record of the Tasman Peninsula, the life course data of the convicts and the administrative record generated by decades of convict labour management. Through these, the research seeks to demonstrate how changing ideologies affected the processes and outcomes of convict labour and its products, as well as how the landscapes we see today were formed and developed in response to a complex interplay of multi-scalar penological and economic influences. Areas of inquiry: Australian convict archaeology and history. The archaeology and history of Australian convict labour management. The archaeology and history of the Tasman Peninsula.
Publisher: International Institute of Social History
Date: 16-08-2021
DOI: 10.51964/HLCS10912
Abstract: This article describes the formation of The Tasmanian Historical Dataset a longitudinal data resource spanning the 19th and early 20th century. This resource contains over 1.6 million records drawn from digitised prison and hospital admission registers, military enlistment papers, births, deaths and marriages, census and muster records, arrival and departure lists, bank accounts and property valuations, maps and plans and meteorological observations. As well as providing an account of the many different sources that have been digitised coded and linked as part of this initiative, the article outlines current and past research uses to which this data has been put. Further information on tables and key variables is provided in an appendix.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-11-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2023
DOI: 10.1016/J.EJVS.2022.11.005
Abstract: To compare rates of mortality, rupture and secondary intervention following endovascular repair (EVAR) of intact abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) using contemporary endograft devices from three major manufacturers. Retrospective cohort study using linked clinical registry (Australasian Vascular Audit) and all payer administrative data. We identified patients undergoing EVAR for intact AAA between 2010-2019 in New South Wales, Australia. We compared rates of all-cause mortality, secondary rupture and secondary intervention (subsequent aneurysm repair other secondary aortic intervention) for patients treated with Cook, Medtronic and Gore standard devices. We used inverse probability of treatment weighted proportional hazards and competing risk regression to adjust for patient, clinical and aneurysm characteristics, using Cook as the referent device. We identified 2,874 eligible EVAR patients, with a median follow-up of 4.1 (maximum 9.5) years. Mortality rates were similar for patients receiving different devices (ranging between 7.0-7.3 per 100 person-years). There was no significant difference between devices in secondary rupture rates, which ranged between 0.4-0.5 per 100 person-years. Patients receiving Medtronic and Gore devices tended to have higher crude rates of subsequent aneurysm repair (1.5 per 100 person-years) than patients receiving Cook devices (0.8 per 100 person-years). This finding remained in the adjusted analysis, but was only statistically significant for Medtronic devices (HR 1.57, 95% CI 1.02-2.47 HR 1.73, 95% CI 0.94-3.18 respectively). Major endograft devices have similar overall long-term safety profiles. However, there may be differences in rates of secondary intervention for some devices. This may reflect endograft durability, or patient selection for different devices based on aneurysm anatomy. Continuous comparative assessments are needed to guide evidence for treatment decisions across the range of available devices.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-1999
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-10-2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-11-2014
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
Date: 04-2018
DOI: 10.15184/AQY.2018.58
Abstract: The ‘Landscapes of Production and Punishment’ project aims to examine how convict labour from 1830–1877 affected the built and natural landscapes of the Tasman Peninsula, as well as the lives of the convicts themselves.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 05-2007
Publisher: International Institute of Social History
Date: 31-03-2021
DOI: 10.51964/HLCS9558
Abstract: Kees Mandemakers has enriched historical databases in the Netherlands and internationally through the development of the Historical S le of the Netherlands, the Intermediate Data Structure, a practical implementation of rule-based record linking (LINKS) and personal encouragement of high quality longitudinal data in a number of countries.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-1993
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-03-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2015
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.2307/27516821
Publisher: OpenEdition
Date: 23-12-2022
DOI: 10.4000/CHS.3311
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-09-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0020859013000308
Abstract: Between 1787 and 1868 a total of 830 convict vessels left the British Isles bound for the Australian penal colonies. While only one of these was seized by mutineers, many convicts were punished for plotting to take the ship that carried them to the Antipodes. This article will explore the circumstances that shaped those mutiny attempts and the impact that they had on convict management strategies.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2019
End Date: 2022
Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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End Date: 2024
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2018
End Date: 2021
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2012
End Date: 2012
Funder: Wellcome Trust
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2022
End Date: 2024
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2003
End Date: 2005
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2022
End Date: 2024
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2003
End Date: 2006
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2017
End Date: 2019
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2007
End Date: 2011
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2011
End Date: 2013
Funder: Australian Research Council
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