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ARTFUL DODGERS AND VILLAGE HAMPDENS

BBC Radio 3
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† by GEORGE RUDÉ
Professor of History, School of Social Science. Flinders University of South Australia
Between 1788 and 1868, 160,000 men and about 25,000 women were sent as convicts to the Australian colonies. What sort of people were they? How many were ordinary criminals and how many political or social protesters? We now begin to have the statistics to give us a clear idea.

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