‘The families were … too poor to send them parcels’: The provision of comforts to Aboriginal soldiers in the AIF in the Second World War

Harman, Kristyn

doi:10.22459/ah.39.2015.11

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“…14 The same can be said for Vandemonian laws which, like the laws of the colony of New South Wales from which Van Diemen's Land separated in 1825, were also derived and evolved from English laws. 15 Detailed records of Lewis's criminal activities and court appearances in Auckland have survived through the pages of colonial newspapers, digitised and available through the National Library of New Zealand's New Zealand Papers Past database. Lewis's life in captivity, like the lives of tens of thousands of convicts in the Australian penal colonies, came under unprecedented scrutiny in Van Diemen's Land where it became inscribed into a set of administrative records pertaining to convicts since added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.…”

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Floating Frontiersmen and Illicit Informal Economies in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies

Harman

2023

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In the 1840s, Britain’s New Zealand and Vandemonian colonies underwent significant transformations that proved to be turning points in their histories. New Zealand became a crown colony in 1840, while the convict colony of Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) was the site of a unique experiment in penal discipline. Against this backdrop, Spanish-born and American-raised black whaler Emanuel Lewis traded oceanic voyaging for a terrestrial-based Antipodean lifestyle. This urban-based floating frontiersman subsequently became embroiled in three court cases. Intimate readings of these cases reveal how several unofficial economies were flourishing at the time in New Zealand and Van Diemen’s Land, and link life on the land in the port cities of Auckland and Hobart into a global maritime network within which Lewis functioned as a node.

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confidence: 99%