Research
About the Project
Founders & Survivors is a partnership between historians, genealogists, demographers and population health researchers. It seeks to record and study the founding population of 73,000 men women and children who were transported to Tasmania. Many survived their convict experience and went on to help build a new society.
Research Projects
Title |
Researchers (staff) | Researchers (other) |
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| Bleeding, Blistering and Observations of the Bowel: A Comparative Analysis of Hospital Treatment in the Mid-Nineteenth Century | hmaxwell | Amy Kamphuis |
| Boys from the Avenue: an intergenerational study of the men on the Soldiers Memorial Avenue, Queen's Domain, Hobart |
hmaxwell agerrard |
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| Crime and Convicts in Tasmania 1853-1900 | hmaxwell | Peter Richardson |
| Fertility decline in late nineteenth-century Tasmania | rebeccakippen | Helen Moyle |
| Impact of labour markets on re-offending rates for convicts under sentence | hmaxwell | |
| Keeping track of paperwork absconders |
hmaxwell rebeccakippen |
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| Labour and Migration in the British Indian Ocean and Australia | hmaxwell | Luke Clark |
| Morbidity and mortality on the voyage to Australia |
hmaxwell rebeccakippen |
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| Policing the Indian Ocean: Crime, Punishment and the Legal System on the Island of Mauritius in the 1830s and 1840s | hmaxwell | Eilin Hordvik |
| Prostitution and the Female Convict | hmaxwell | Christine Leppard |
Recent Publications
In the News
| Title | Publication | Publication details |
Publication date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digitisation secures research data | University of Melbourne Voice | 4 April, 2011 | |
| Convict life echoes through generations | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | 28 February, 2011 | |
| Talkback: a convict in the family | Radio National Life Matters | Broadcast 29 January 2010 | 29 January, 2010 |
| Personal Details: the Founders & Survivors Project | Ancestor: Quarterly Journal of the Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc | Vol. 29, Issue 6, pp. 7—9 | 1 June, 2009 |
| Chains of Evidence: the Founders & Survivors Project | The Genealogist: the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies | Vol. XII, No. 10, pp. 16-17 | 1 June, 2009 |
| Hidden histories | University of Melbourne Voice | 13 April, 2009 | |
| Is there a Tasmanian convict settler in your family tree? | University of Melbourne Voice | 9 February, 2009 | |
| Proud convict past an evolutionary lesson for snooty Darwin | The Age | 26 January, 2009 |
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