Emma Christopher

The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in AfricaThis is a story lost to history for over two hundred years; a dirty secret of failure, fatal misjudgement and desperate measures which the British Empire chose to forget almost as soon as it was over.  In the wake of its most crushing defeat, the America War of Independence, the...

The Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American RevolutionSince Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, the fate of British convicts has burned brightly in the popular imagination. Incredibly, their larger story is even more dramatic--the saga of forgotten men and women scattered to the farthest corners of the British empire, driven by the...

The Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American RevolutionSince Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, the fate of British convicts has burned brightly in the popular imagination. Incredibly, their larger story is even more dramatic--the saga of forgotten men and women scattered to the farthest corners of the British empire, driven by the...