This coding system is an early attempt to classify the crimes for which men and women were sentenced and punished, both in the United Kingdom, and in the Australian penal colonies. It was built in 2017-2018 by Kelsey Priestman while working on the UNE’s...
A formative phase of the application of digital methods to the study of convict Australia was the establishment of a coding system for ship voyages carrying convicts from England and Ireland. As a starting point, this was based on the voyages identified by historian...