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Dead Letters

Jacqueline Reiter | Published in History Today Volume 73 Issue 2 February 2023

Correspondence from the members of the doomed expedition to find the Northwest Passage.

‘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