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Talk: The Fatal Shore - The Transportation of Devon Convicts to Tasmania
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£5
£5 payable on the door; free to Torquay Museum Society Members
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A Torquay Museum Society lecture by Phil Badcott on the transportation of Devon convicts to Tasmania in the early 19th century.
Phil Badcott delivers a Torquay Museum Society lecture on the transportation of Devon convicts to Tasmania in the early 19th century. The talk explores the shocking story of the 65,000 convicts shipped across the ocean to Tasmania and the terror inflicted upon them. The lecture is free to Museum Society members, with the general public welcome to attend for £5 payable on the door.
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