Digging Deeper – Session 1 -British Courts and Convicts
June 5 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM AEST
Processes and records of the English court system. Following conviction learn about convicts lives in records.
Presenter:
Jan Richardson
Jan Richardson is a PhD candidate at Griffith University investigating the presence of non-European convicts and indentured labourers (‘coolies’) in Queensland prior to 1860, including ethnic minority individuals of African, Asian and Pacific Island ethnicity. She is also a Research Assistant at Griffith University’s Harry Gentle Resource Centre contributing to a biographical dictionary of Queensland’s early colonial residents. Jan’s publications include ‘Out of sight, out of mind: Ex-convict female paupers incarcerated in Queensland’s benevolent asylums’ in the Journal of Australian Colonial History (Vol. 24, 2022), available to download (open access) via this link: https://blog.une.edu.au/convicthistory/2022/11/18/publications/
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