“Dancing and Discipline, Frolics and Felonies, Punch and Punishment, Rum and Reform”: Queen Victoria’s Birthday Party, Norfolk Island Penal Station, 25 May 1840 Latest output from my Maconochie research available. Paywalled but DM if you want a copy htt
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RT @MaryseTennant: #OTD in 2016 President Obama announced the USA would end its ban on selling military equipment to Vietnam. The contested…
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#OTD in 2016 President Obama announced the USA would end its ban on selling military equipment to Vietnam. The contested symbolism of the #tigercages delayed normalisaiton of relations between the two countries. You can read about this in my new chapter ht
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RT @Briony_Neilson: Interested in the cultural and historical imaginings of penal colonies? Now's a good time to buy Framing the Penal Colo…