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Historical resources for Western Australian History
Pamela Statham Drew has compiled the following list of Books and Articles relating to the History of Western Australia.
If you know of any books or articles that could be added to the list please contact Pamela at nickdrew@bigpond.com
Convict Era
Author | Book Title | Published By |
|---|---|---|
Barry, Liam | Voices from the Tomb: A Biographical Dictionary of the 62 Fenians Transported to Western Australia National | National Gaelic Publications 2006 |
Bosworth, M. | Convict Fremantle: A Place of Promise and Punishment, | University of WA Press, Perth, 2004 |
Broomhall, F.H. | Veterans: A History of the Enrolled Pensioner Force in WA 1850- 1880 | Hesperian Press 1983 |
Cromb, Alison | The History of the Toodyay Convict Depot | Perth 2010 |
Erickson, R. & O'Mara, G. | Convicts of Western Australia : Dictionary of Western Australians Vol. IX 1850-1887 | UWAP 1994 |
Erickson, Rica | The Brand On His Coat: Biographies of some Western Australian Convicts | UWAP 1983 |
Edgar Bill | Lags: A History of the WA Convict Population | Perth 2012 |
Gibbs, M. | The Archaeology of the Convict System in Western Australia | Australasian Journal of Historical Archaeology 19: 60�72 |
Reece, Bob | Irish Convicts: The Origins of Convicts Transported to Australia | Dublin 1999 |
Reece, Bob (Ed.) | Exiles from Erin: Convict Lives in Ireland and Australia | MacMillan 1991 |
Shaw, A.G.L. | Great Britain and the Colonies 1815-1865 | Methuen 1970 |
Stannage, C.T. (Ed.) | Studies in Western Australian History IV: Convictism in Western Australia | UWAP 1981 |
Statham, P. | Why Convicts 1 & 2' in Studies in Western Australian History | Vol IV Dec 1981 |
Stevens, S. | 'Pensioner guards' in Gregory J, & Gothard J. (Eds) | UWA Press 2009 pp. 674-675 |
Sweeney, C. | Transported in place of Death : Convicts in Australia | Macmillan Aust. 1981 p162 |
Taylor, S. | Who were the Convicts: A Statistical Analysis of the Convicts Arriving in Western Australia in 1850/51, 1861/62, and 1866/68 | in Stannage, C. T. (ed.) above |
Thomas, J.A. & Stewart, A. | Imprisonment in Western Australia | UWA Press 1978 |
Waters, O.D.P. | The Fenian Wild Geese: From the last Convict ship to the Catalpa Rescue | Catalpa Publications 2011 |
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