- A History of Cygnet, Tasmania
Local history and photographs of Cygnet, including genealogical information on settlers and convicts
- Australian Convict Collection (ancestry.com.au)
Searchable online database for information on convicts transported to Australia. Includes links to Tasmanian indexes that list Tasmanian convict musters, pardons and tickets of leave
- Australian convict sites: World Heritage Listings (Heritage Tasmania)
Heritage Tasmania information on the World Heritage listing of five of Tasmania's most significant convict sites, along with other Australian convict sites. Includes links to the Tasmanian Heritage Register entries for the nominated sites: Brickendon Farm Village, Cascades Female Factory, Coal Mines Historic Site, Darlington Probation Station, Port Arthur Historic Site, and Woolmers Estate
- Australian Memory of the World Register
Selective list of Australia's documentary heritage, including items that have been accepted for inclusion in the Memory of the World International Programme. The Australian list includes records of the Tasmanian Convict Department 1803-1893, held by the Archives Office of Tasmania
- Cascades Colonial Accommodation
Situated on the shores of Norfolk Bay on the Tasman Peninsula, Cascades is the former convict Probation Station; it offers self-contained accommodation in the convict-built officers' quarters and restored workshops
- Cascades Female Factory (National Heritage List)
Description of the heritage values of Hobart's Cascades Female Factory site, a penal institution for convict women (1828-1856), included as a place in the National Heritage List (gazetted 1 August 2007)
- Cascades Female Factory historic site
From 1828-1877 the Female Factory served as Hobart's female prison. Archaeological and conservation work is now taking place on the site and visitors are welcome
- Closing Hell's Gates: the death of a convict station
Details of the book by University of Tasmania academic, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (published Crows Nest, N.S.W : Allen and Unwin, 2008), with additional material: a full list of references, an addendum to acknowledgements, images not included in the publication, the full text of the poem, 'Macquarie Harbour' by John Thompson, and source documents
- Coal Mines Historic Site
Information on the Coal Mines Historic Site, Tasmania's first operational mine located near Saltwater River on the north western tip of the Tasman Peninsula. The site is also managed by the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority
- Coal Mines Historic Site (National Heritage List)
Description of the heritage values of the convict site, located on the northern promontory of Tasman Peninsula, beside Little Norfolk Bay, included as a place on the National Heritage List (gazetted 1 August 2007)
- Convict enquiry service (Port Arthur Historic Sites)
Provides information on the Convict Enquiry Service, which provides assistance with research into Tasmanian convicts. Includes an online equiry form, fees and contact details
- Convicts in Tasmania
LINC Tasmania records documenting both the convict system and the lives of over 75,000 individuals which can be viewed online. Includes link to a searchable index of all convicts transported to Tasmania, and those who were convicted in the colony
- Darlington Probation Station (National Heritage List)
Description of the heritage values of the former convict probation station situated on Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast, included as a place in the National Heritage List (gazetted 1 August 2007)
- Female Convicts Research Group (Tasmania)
Formerly known as the Female Factory Research Group (FFRG), the Group fosters research into the lives and experiences of convict women and their children in Van Diemen's Land, and into the Female Factories that housed them. Membership is open to anyone interested in this research. The group provides a discussion forum, maintains the Female Factory Research Group, runs a research and transcription service, and hosts events celebrating the lives of female convicts
- First Fagin (Film)
Film set in Tasmania which was produced with the financial assistance of Screen Tasmania with screenings taking place in Tasmania
- For the term of his natural life
Digitised version of the 1888 edition of Marcus Clarke's novel showing the working and results of the nineteenth century English system of transportation of convicts to Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania
- Founders and Survivors
Founders & Survivors is a national project funded by the Australian Research Council. It seeks to record and study the founding population who were transported to Tasmania. Site includes a form for family historians to submit convict information and a registration form for volunteers
- Founders and Survivors Storylines
An online journey, financed by Screen Australia, based on the Tasmanian convict records of the Founders & Survivors database
- Henry Savery: Australia's first novelist
University of Tasmania online exhibition on Henry Savery, a convict transported to Van Diemen's land and Australia's first novelist. Author of "Quintus Servinton : a tale founded upon incidents of real occurrence"
- International Centre for Convict Studies (ICCS)
ICCS is a trans-national and multi-disciplinary consortium of scholars engaged in research on penal transportation and convict experience within the British Empire from 1600-1940. It includes researchers from Australia, United States, South Africa and Europe working in the disciplines of history, textual studies, archaeology, economics and sociology
- Jeni Thornley
Film maker of Island Home Country, a poetic cine-essay about race and Australia's colonised history and how it impacts into the present, with reference to Tasmania's colonial past
- Jillett Family
Website dedicated to the history of the Jillett family, Robert Jillett and Elizabeth Bradshaw and descendents who were early settlers in the Oatlands and York Plains districts in Tasmania
- Key to Port Arthur Investigations
Web site designed to provide a program of discovery-based learning for secondary school students by engaging them in the life of a Port Arthur resident, set between 1830 and 1877. The web site complements a CD-ROM, and provides resources for teachers and students. The program is supported by the Port Arthur Historic Site's Education Office
- Macquarie Harbour historical research subject database
The Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment's searchable database based on the subject index to Ian Brand's Macquarie Harbour research
- Norfolk Bay Convict Station
Historic bed and breakfast overlooking the quiet waters of Little Norfolk Bay, just 10 minutes from Port Arthur, Tasmania. Also self contained accommodation in Taranna House
- Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site
Historical information on Hobart's Penitentiary Chapel, established early 1830s, with details of tours and events, and research
- Port Arthur Historic Site (National Heritage List)
Description of the heritage values of the Port Arthur Historic Site, for which it has been included in the National Heritage List
- Port Arthur Historic Sites
Information on the history, archaeology, activities, facilities, and management of Tasmania's Port Arthur Historic Site, the former penal settlement. Includes information on the Coal Mines Historic Site and Felons Bistro
- Port Arthur Historic Sites Cafes and Bistro
Details of snack and dining facilities including the Port Cafe in the Visitors Centre and Museum Coffee Shop located in the Asylum building. Includes Felon Bistro
- Port Arthur Historic Sites gift shop
Selected items can be purchased from the online gift shop
- Roses From the Heart
Website of the project by Tasmanian conceptual artist Christina Henri, involving the creation of bonnets to commemorate the lives of convict women. People can support her project and exhibition tour by making bonnets, or purchasing the DVD documentary, Voices in the Dark, or project t-shirt
- Ross Female Factory
One of four female factories established in Tasmania, the Ross Female Factory is a protected Historic Site, managed by the Parks & Wildlife Service and the Tasmanian Wool Centre of Ross. Archeological and convict discoveries are being made
- Tasmania Convicts 'Old News' Index
Alphabetical name index of convicts mentioned in old Tasmanian newspapers, with the nature of the reference, and the name of the convict's ship of arrival
- Tony Rayner
Personal website of Tony Rayner, historian and author of "Female Factory Female Convicts", which is availabe for purchase online
