Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land Chinese including works by the eponym

including works by the eponym

On 7 September 1936

The Tao Sublime catalogue features the latest temporary exhibition at the Art Gallery at Royal Park

large format board book with amazing fold-out pages

hunting practices and controlled burning on the island

Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land Chinese including works by the eponymIn the early nineteenth century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over two thousand boys who had been eking out a living on the streets of Britains towns and cities were transported to the Point Puer Boys Establishment in Van Diemens Land. There they were to be turned into productive colonial workers. Despite the rhetoric of reform, most of the boys endured unrelenting punishment