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Recovering Convict Lives : A Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tuffin, Richard.
- Series:
- Studies in Australasian Historical Archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons--Tasmania--Hobart--History.
- Prisons.
- Correctional institutions--Australia--Tasmania--History.
- Correctional institutions.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Australia--Port Arthur (Tas.).
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Port Arthur (Tas.)--History.
- Port Arthur (Tas.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Recovering Convict Lives
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- The World Heritage-listed Port Arthur penitentiary is one of Australia's most visited historical sites, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year. Designed to incarcerate 480 men, between 1856 and 1877 thousands of convicts passed through it. In 2016, archaeologists began one of the largest ever excavations of an Australian convict site. Recovering Convict Lives: Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary makes their findings available to general readers for the first time. Extensively illustrated, it is a fascinating journey into the inner workings of the penal system and the day-to-day lives of Port Arthur convicts. Through the things they left behind - the sandstone base of a prison wall, a clay pipe discarded in a washroom, gambling tokens dropped between floorboards - this book tells their stories.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half title page
- Studies in Australasian Historical Archaeology
- Title page
- List of figures
- List of plates
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 A short history of Port Arthur
- Chapter 2 The story of the penitentiary precinct
- Plates
- Chapter 3 Private lives in public spaces: understanding the convict experience
- Chapter 4 Illustrated summary of the archaeological investigations
- Conclusion: one building, many stories
- About the authors
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781743327838
- 1743327838
- 9781743327845
- 1743327846
- OCLC:
- 1283844428
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