Male and Female Experiences of Work, Punishment and Death in Convict Australia, 1830-60
Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
University of Tasmania/ UCD Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History
Thursday 22nd March @ 6.00-7.30pm
5th Floor Library Building, Room L532, UCD
All Welcome
This seminar examines the impacts of punishment, nutrition, accommodation and medical treatment on mortality. In doing so it pays particular attention to the factors which lay behind the very low death rates recorded for convict women. It argues that regulations which cut down on the social rights of transported prisoners conversely enabled a greater number to survive to the point where they gained their
Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stewart currently holds the Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History at UCD. The research for this paper forms part of a larger Australian Research Council-funded study of the impact of convict transportation on health and wellbeing
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5th Floor Library Building, Room L532, UCD