Prison is never nice, but the Victorian prison of Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s Land combined starvation, deprivation, desperation, and […]

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To celebrate the 4th anniversary, the episode will be all about Lovelace and Babbage; the true inventors of the computer […]

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At its heart, a prison is the people. But what kind of people ended up in the hellish Port Arthur […]

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How does it feel to be cast out? To lose everything you’ve ever known and be sent to the ends […]

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Clothes maketh the man; but how did a gent dress in the 1840s? This episode features; Intro & podcast update. […]

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Merry Christmas everyone. What a year, so lets round it off in comfort. This special episode features. Thank you’s. Quick […]

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The journey into Empire continues as we look at Tasmania, known as Van Diemen’s Land. Here the European settlers, the […]

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The journey into Empire continues as we look more closely at the Australia’s, and the difficult issues of landownership, native […]

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The journey into Empire continues as we look more closely at the Australia’s, and the difficult issues of landownership, native […]

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To understand the past, sometimes we need to examine our values and subject them to philosophical analysis. The British Empire […]

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