Articles

The list of articles below are separated into Open Access and Paywalled groups. Where a link is available, clicking on an article will open an external link on a new tab/page.

Open Access

GIBBS, M. D., R. L. TUFFIN, H. MAXWELL-STEWART, D. A. ROBERTS, D. ROE, J. N. STEELE, S. HOOD & B. S. GODFREY 2018, ‘Landscapes of production and punishment: convict labour management on the Tasman Peninsula 1830–1877’, Antiquity 92(362).
GIBBS, M., TUFFIN, R., ROE, D. 2023, “An Historical Archaeology of Labor in Convict Australia: A Framework for Engagement.” Historical Archaeology 57 (3): 1008–30.
PIPER, A. 2020, ‘The dregs of a criminal population: Impression Bay and the origins of Tasmania’s residential charitable system, c. 1839-1857’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, 22: 211-236.
PITT, N., D’GLUYAS, C. 2026, ‘Mapping People, Labor, and Movement in the First Decades (1788–1825) of Colonial Parramatta, Australia, with Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
ROBERTS, N. 2020, ‘The Lives and Labour Skills of the Port Arthur woodworkers, 1866-1874’. Journal of Australian Colonial History, 22: 153-184.
SEBANC-BUTLER, J., M. GIBBS & R. TUFFIN 2020, ‘Convict Brickmaking at Port Arthur: 1830-1877’, Journal of Australian Colonial History 22: 119-152.
TUFFIN, R. & M. GIBBS 2020, ‘‘uninformed and impractical’? The convict probation system and its impact upon the landscape of 1840s Van Diemen’s Land’, History Australia 17(1): 87-114.
TUFFIN, R. 2004, ‘Cascades probation station: prison built on timber’, Tasmanian Historical Research Association 51(2): 70-83.
TUFFIN, R. 2013, ‘Australia’s industrious convicts: a reappraisal of archaeological approaches to convict labour’, Australian Archaeology 76(1): 1-12.
TUFFIN, R., M. GIBBS, D. ROE & S. SZYDZIK 2023, ‘Where the past happened: Using history and archaeology to locate Australia’s convicts’, Australian Journal of Biography and History (7).

Paywalled

GIBBS, M. 2002, ‘The enigma of William Jackman, “The Australian Captive”: fictional account or the true story of a 19th Century castaway in Western Australia’, The Great Circle 24(2): 3-21.
GIBBS, M. 2012, ‘The convict system of New South Wales: a review of archaeological research since 2001’, Archaeology in Oceania 47(2): 78-83.
GIBBS, M., B. DUNCAN & R. VARMAN 2017, ‘The free and unfree settlements of Norfolk Island: an overview of archaeological research’, Australian Archaeology 83(3): 82-99.
GIBBS, M., R. TUFFIN & D. ROE 2023, ‘Unfree intersections the study of Australia’s convict past and the growth of the digital humanities’, Australasian Historical Archaeology 40: 31-45.
GIBBS, M., TUFFIN, R. 2026 (in press), “…of a most excellent description…”: a historical archaeology of the Maria Island convict cloth manufactory, 1825 to 1832’, Australian Historical Archaeology.
PIERIS, A., M. LOZANOVSKA, A. DELLIOS, R. MILLER-YEAMAN, E. EKLUND, D. BEYNON & R. TUFFIN 2019, ‘Forum: Industrial sites and immigrant architectures. A case study approach’, Fabrications 29(2): 257-272.
TUFFIN, R. & M. GIBBS 2019, ‘Early Port Arthur: convict colonization and the formation of a penal station in Van Diemen’s Land 1830–35’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology 23: 568-595.
TUFFIN, R. & M. GIBBS 2019, ‘Repopulating landscapes: using offence data to recreate landscapes of incarceration and labour at the Port Arthur penal station, 1830-1877’, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 13(1-2): 155-181.
TUFFIN, R. & M. GIBBS 2020, ‘The archaeology of the convict probation system: the labor landscapes of Port Arthur and the Cascades probation station, 1839–55’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology 24(3): 589-617.
TUFFIN, R. 2004, ‘A monument to folly? The Port Arthur flourmill and granary’, Tasmanian Historical Studies 9: 124-128.