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‘A View of Sydney on Norfolk Island, 1792’. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Public Domain.

Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island

J.M. Moore | Published in History Today Volume 75 Issue 1 January 2025

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and the merits of Alexander Maconochi

To Frame a Painter

Giles MacDonogh | Published in History Today Volume 71 Issue 2 February 2021

A society portraitist who emigrated to Britain from Hungary found himself embroiled in a drama of divided loyalties during the First World War.