Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land by Alistair Scott | PB Autobiography / Biography Noted Tasmanian historian Garry Richardson

Noted Tasmanian historian Garry Richardson once again demonstrates his meticulous research skills by augmenting the narrative with extensive specifications

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Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land by Alistair Scott | PB Autobiography / Biography Noted Tasmanian historian Garry RichardsonThis book has been awarded the 2026 Kay Daniels Award (sponsored by members and associates of the Australian Historical Association, the University of Tasmania and the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority) and shortlisted in the Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History 2026. In the early nineteenth century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over two thousand