The Database provides a powerful tool for searching the convicts' records and for compiling statistics, but no theory about the white settlement of Australia would be adequate without reference to the letters and diaries written by the real participants in this human drama. Unfortunately few documents from the convicts remain, nor from the aborigines, however here are a selection from the "officials", plus some stories of the time compiled by our team's historian, Adair Bunnett.
First-hand stories:
- Instructions From The Home Secretary, Lord Sydney, To Captain Arthur Phillip, 1786
- February 6th, 1788 - The Women Come Ashore, Arthur Bowes Journal Entry
- February 7th, 1788 - Phillip's Address to the Convicts
- May 16th, 1788 - Captain Arthur Phillip to Lord Sydney
- May 30th & 31st, 1788 - Excerpt From The Diary Of Lieutenant Bradley
- July 4th, 1788 - John White, Surgeon to Captain Arthur Phillip
- July 5th, 1788 - Captain Arthur Phillip to Under Secretary, Nepean
- July 5th, 1788 - Captain Arthur Phillip to Lord Sydney
- July 9th, 1788 - Captain Arthur Phillip to Lord Sydney
- A Convict Ballad - Bound for Botany Bay
- The Night Watch
Second-hand stories and other information:
- Mutinies
- The Dunkirk Hulk
- The first marriages in the settlement
- A Multicultural First Fleet
- What was Caesar really like?
- Chronology of the First Fleet
- Map of the route of the First Fleet
- Rations in the first two years
- Law and Order
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