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Thank you to the following organizations who graciously allowed me to use their copyrighted images in my slideshow of the exiles

  • IDIDJ Australia
  • National Library of Australia (John Allcot (1888–1973) The First Fleet in Sydney Cove, January 27, 1788, Sydney 1937, nla.obj-135776002; Backhouse, Edward, A chain gang, convicts going to work near Sidney [i.e. Sydney], New South Wales 1843, nla.obj-138467409; Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) Convicts embarking for Botany Bay [picture] / T. Rowlandson, PIC Drawer 3842 #T2670 NK228; Alf Scott Broad (1854-1929) Aboriginal life in Australia, Feb.1886, Bib ID 248221; Digger’s wife in full dress … [picture] / G. Lacy, Bib ID: 1061505)

  • Marty Bugs via Wikipedia under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) 

  • Kim Traynor via Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

  • The Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania (PIC Drawer 3063 #U2894 NK277; A story in stone, Women’s Penitentiary, Hobart J.C. Goodhart, FA998; Susan Georgina Marianne Fereday (1810-1878), Cessation of transportation celebrations, Launceston, V.D.L., Aug 10 1853, FA400)

  • Tasmanian Archives, Libraries Tasmania ( TAHO, NS1013/1/45, E.R. Pretyman collection; TAHO, NS1013/1/600)

  • State Library Victoria (Fig. 3: Australian Aborigines — War. [Calvert Collection, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.])

  • Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies (JS Prout, ‘Residence of the Aborigines, Flinders Island’, 1846)

  • Kirsten Lenck (@tassiekirsten on Instagram)

COMING MAY 2026: THE FOURSOME

A literary historical novel set in Civil War-era North Carolina, based on a true family story and told from the perspective of Sarah Bunker, one of two sisters who married Chang and Eng, the famous conjoined twins…learn more

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