Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land by Alistair Scott | PB Health acceptance

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an emeritus professor with a distinguished international career

For what are the ravens of Tasmania searching when you hear their haunting cries echoing across the valleys and hills

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Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land by Alistair Scott | PB Health acceptanceThis book has been awarded the 2026 Kay Daniels Award (sponsored by members and associates of the Australian Historical Association, the University of Tasmania and the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority) and shortlisted in the Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History 2026. In the early nineteenth century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over two thousand