Websites for First Fleet Research Assignment
- First Fleet — resources from University of Wollongong, including a searchable database of the First Fleet convicts: http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au
- Conviz — the British Convict Transportation Registry brought to life through visualisations http://conviz.info/convicts/?departure_year=1787
- Convict records: www.convictrecords.com.au/convicts/year/1787
- The First Fleet, resources from the State Library of New South Wales, including first-hand accounts of the experiences of some of those who travelled south to Botany Bay: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/history_nation/terra_australis/firstfleet.html
- The First Fleeters: Biographical and historial resources from the State Library of New South Wales: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/research_guides/convicts/information/first_fleet.html
- Prison hulks on the River Thames, from the collections of Royal Museums Greenwich: www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.56/chapterId/414/Prison-hulks-on-the- River-Thames.html
- Convict women, Perth Dead Persons’ Society, Convicts to Australia project: www.members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/confem.html
- William Hubbard: First Fleet convict — a sample case study, collated by Hubbard First Fleet Group: www.firstfleet.org.au
- National Library Archives: www.nla.gov.au/australiana/australian-history-selected-websites
- List of provisions, by the First Fleet Fellowship: http://home.vicnet.net.au/firstff/ships.htm
- Picture Australia, Trove, National Library of Australia: www.pictureaustralia.org
- Print
- Hill, D 2008, 1788: The brutal truth of the First Fleet — the biggest single overseas migration the world had ever seen, North Sydney, Heinemann.
- Alexander, G 2006, Surviving Sydney Cove: The diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Scholastic, NSW.
- French, J 2004, Tom Appleby, Convict Boy, HarperCollins, Sydney.
- Walker, K 1988, The Letters of Rosie O’Brien: A convict in the colony of New South Wales, 1804, Martin Educational, NSW.
Other resources
- Donner, C (dir) 1982, Oliver Twist (film, rated PG), Claridge Productions, UK.
- Reed, C (dir) 1968, Oliver! (film, rated G), Romulus Films, UK.
- Gross, Y (dir) 1979, The Little Convict, (film, rated G), Yoram Gross Films, Australia.
- Donner, C (dir) 1982, Oliver Twist (film, rated PG), Claridge Productions, UK.
- Hill, D 2008, 1788: The brutal truth of the First Fleet — the biggest single overseas migration the world had ever seen, North Sydney, Heinemann.