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		<title>Publications: revised version</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 07:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those publications with an asterisk (*) were co-written with C.W. Daniels. This list does not include editorials for Teaching History, book reviews or unpublished papers. Neither does it include the two series of books for which I have been joint-editor: &#8230; <a href="http://richardjohnbr.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/publications-revised-version/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardjohnbr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16296349&#038;post=1986&#038;subd=richardjohnbr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Famine, Fenians and Freedom, 1840-1882</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 07:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JUST PUBLISHED IN KINDLE Famine, Fenians and Freedom, 1840-1882 is the second volume of a trilogy on resistance and rebellion in the British Empire. It is a detailed and nuanced study of the exodus of the impoverished and persecuted from &#8230; <a href="http://richardjohnbr.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/famine-fenians-and-freedom-1840-1882-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardjohnbr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16296349&#038;post=1982&#038;subd=richardjohnbr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Fleet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 08:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The First Fleet consisted of six convict ships (Alexander, Charlotte, Lady Penrhyn, Friendship, Prince of Wales and Scarborough), three food and supply transports (Fishburn, Borrowdale and Golden Grove) and two Royal Navy escorts (HMS Sirius and HMS Supply).[1] It left &#8230; <a href="http://richardjohnbr.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/the-first-fleet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardjohnbr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16296349&#038;post=1978&#038;subd=richardjohnbr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sex, Work and Politics: Women in Britain, 1830-1918</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 15:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JUST PUBLISHED &#160; In 1830, women of all classes were repressed in a male-dominated society. By 1918, largely through their own struggles, they had seized control over most areas of their lives. Some of these sought access to the public &#8230; <a href="http://richardjohnbr.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/sex-work-and-politics-women-in-britain-1830-1918-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardjohnbr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16296349&#038;post=1969&#038;subd=richardjohnbr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Botany Bay?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 20:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several misconceptions have arisen about whether the colony of New South Wales was actually established to solve Britain’s convict problem in the late eighteenth century leading to a tendentious ‘Botany Bay debate’. The history is actually far more complex and &#8230; <a href="http://richardjohnbr.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/why-botany-bay/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardjohnbr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16296349&#038;post=1963&#038;subd=richardjohnbr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 07:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The history of the women’s movement from John Stuart Mill onwards is a fine blend of heroism and farce that came to an abrupt halt in 1914 by which time the movement lacked any obvious strategy for success. The failure &#8230; <a href="http://richardjohnbr.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/what-if/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardjohnbr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16296349&#038;post=1961&#038;subd=richardjohnbr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction: From convict society to responsible government</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 08:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 1788 until 1823, NSW was a penal colony.[1]This meant that there were mainly convicts, marines and the wives of the marines although free settlers started to arrive in 1793. Law courts may have been established when the colony was &#8230; <a href="http://richardjohnbr.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/from-convict-society-to-responsible-government/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardjohnbr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16296349&#038;post=1956&#038;subd=richardjohnbr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perceptions and realities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has had a bad time since the Budget and much of it has been of their own making.&#160; Whatever the justification for increasing the tax on pasties or equalising personal allowances freezing them for pensioners until the rest &#8230; <a href="http://richardjohnbr.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/perceptions-and-realities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardjohnbr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16296349&#038;post=1954&#038;subd=richardjohnbr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction: A Penal colony</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six years after James Cook landed at Botany Bay in 1770 and gave the territory its English name of ‘New South Wales’, the American colonies declared their independence and the revolutionary war with Britain began. Access to America for transported &#8230; <a href="http://richardjohnbr.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/a-penal-colony/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardjohnbr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16296349&#038;post=1952&#038;subd=richardjohnbr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Other suppliers of leisure</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was much self-made leisure, whether communal or associational on the one hand or personal and family based on the other.&#160; In its communal or associational forms it was a major means of supply of leisure for the middle-class urban &#8230; <a href="http://richardjohnbr.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/other-suppliers-of-leisure/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardjohnbr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16296349&#038;post=1948&#038;subd=richardjohnbr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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