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Sign of the Times

Rosamund Oates | Published in History Today Volume 72 Issue 11 November 2022

Speech, rather than hearing, has been at the heart of the long history of deaf exclusion.

‘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