This is the first Chainletter for 2014. Rebecca Kippen gives an update on Convicts & Diggers; Hamish Maxwell-Stewart reports on his new projects in the United Kingdom; Lucy Frost recounts the history of the Female Convicts Research Centre; Trudy Cowley explains about the new home for the Female Convicts in Van Diemen's Land database; Janet McCalman reports on a five-week tour of European research; and Colette McAlpine describes Hobart in the 1830s.
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