When this stopped, the prisoners were then transported all the way to Australia. Penal transportation was a method of punishment in the British legal system that originated in the 17th century ...

Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...

Captain James Cook first sighted parts of Australia in 1770. The British would later claim the area as a colony - enforcing control over the people who already lived there. British prisoners were ...

Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...