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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

Brigadier General Joshua T. Owen, 1860-65. Courtesy US Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

‘A Baptism of Blood’

Aled Jones | Published in History Today Volume 72 Issue 12 December 2022

Fighting for the Union in the US Civil War, Welsh soldiers discovered that the cost of assimilation was the loss of their native language.