Welcome to Convict Landscapes: 1788 – 1868

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This website brings together a suite of projects investigating the history and archaeology of Convict Australia. This aspect of our past is complex, convoluted and – at times – controversial. Through our many projects we seek to examine past lives, labours and landscapes to understand this foundational moment in Australian history.

“…maybe there was a system, sometimes, and then again, maybe there was not…”

Alan Atkinson, Historian