Alternative TitleStudies in Western Australian history no. 24AuthorSherriff, Jacqui; Brake, AnneDescriptionThis issue of Studies had its genesis in a one day seminar, 'Constructing a Colony: the Convict Legacy", held at the Fremantle Prison on June 2000 to recognise the anniversary of the arrival of the first convicts to Western Australia. These papers add to the slowly expanding body of research that explores the lives of Western Australia's convicts and their keepers, their impact on the social, economic and physical fabric of the colony and provides some tools for further research.ImprintPerth, WA : Centre for Western Australia History in association with University of Western Australia Press , c2006.Collation164 p. : ill (b&w) , 20 cm.Series TitleStudies in Western Australian History ; 28LanguageEnglishContent Note Articles - Journeying the punishment: convicts and their punitive journey's to Western Australia 1850-1868 - Peter Millett -- The voyage of The Racehorse 1865 - William Heseltine -- The control and coercion of convicts - Mathew Trinca -- ISBN978-1-7405-2129-1 (invalid)Dewey Class994.1 WESPublication FormatBook
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Sherriff, Jacqui; Brake, Anne, Building a colony : the convict legacy. City of Fremantle Local History Centre, accessed 28/04/2026, https://history.fremantle.wa.gov.au/nodes/view/22785
