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Read about the latest work from our volunteers and the incredible stories they have found in the archive.

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Published
13 June 2025

Volunteer Dr Brenda Mortimer examines how Australia's Norfolk Island became ‘a place of the extremest punishment’ for colonial convicts in the 1820s.

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