Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land Tasmanian Aboriginal Approximately 35mm long x 18mm

Approximately 35mm long x 18mm wide

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Have you ever wondered about those rocks under your feet

Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land Tasmanian Aboriginal Approximately 35mm long x 18mmIn 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