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Annotated Bibliography

This Annotated Bibliography provides information on a wide range of published and unpublished material relating to the Fremantle Prison.

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History of Fremantle Prison Bibliography

Ayris, C.
Fremantle Prison: a brief history. West Perth: Cyril Ayris Freelance, 1995.

 
   

Battye, J.S.
‘The Convict System’, Appendix 111 in Western Australia: a History from its discovery to the inauguration of the Commonwealth. Oxford: OUP, 1924.

Building Management Authority of W A
Fremantle Prison Conservation and Future Use: Conservation Plan. Perth: Building Management Authority of W A, 1990.

Fremantle Prison Conservation and Future Use: Female Division. Perth: Building Management Authority of W A, 1990.

Fremantle Prison Conservation and Future Use: Hospital. Perth: Building Management Authority of W A, 1990.

Fremantle Prison Conservation and Future Use: Main Cell Block. Perth: Building Management Authority of W A, 1990.

Fremantle Prison Conservation and Future Use: New Division. Perth: Building Management Authority of W A, 1990.

Fremantle Prison Conservation and Future Use: Site: Water, Walls and Yards. Perth: Building Management Authority of W A, 1990.

Fremantle Prison Conservation and Future Use: Some Aspects of the History of the Permanent Convict Establishment and Fremantle Prison. (Unpublished manuscript) Perth: Building Management Authority and Contract and Management Services 1990/1999.

Fremantle Prison Conservation and Future Use: Terrace Buildings. Perth: Building Management Authority of W A, 1990.

Fremantle Prison Conservation and Future Use: Warders Cottages. Perth: Building Management Authority of W A, 1990.

Fremantle Prison Conservation and Future Use: Workshops. Perth: Building Management Authority of W A, 1990.

Campbell, R. M.
‘The Convict Establishment at Fremantle.’Architect No. 11, September 1970, pp. 32-38.

Crowley, F. K.
The Records of Western Australia.Perth: UWA Press, 1953.

Ewers, J. K.
The Western Gateway: a history of Fremantle. 2nd ed.Nedlands, WA: UWA Press, 1971.

Gertzel, C. J.
‘The Convict System in Western Australia, 1850 – 1870.’ Hons dissertation, UWA, 1949.

Government of Western Australia and A. Gill. The ‘Midwife and the ‘Grave digger’: Joshua Jebb and the Western Australian Convict System. Perth: Building Management Authority W A. 1990.

Hasluck, A
Unwilling Emigrants: a study of the convict period in Western Australia. Melbourne: OUP 1959/1978.

Hitchcock, J. K.
The History of Fremantle: the front gate of Australia, 1829-1927.Fremantle: Fremantle City Council [1930].

Hughes, R.
The Fatal Shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868. London: The Harvill Press, 1986.

Kerr, J. S.
Fremantle Prison: a Policy for its Conservation. Perth: Building Management Authority of WA, 1992.

Kimberly, W. B.
‘The Convict System’ in History of West Australia: a narrative of her past, together with biographies of her leading men. Melbourne: F. W. Niven, 1897.

Le Page, J. S. H.
‘The Convict Era 1850-1869’ in Building a State: the Story of the Public Works Department of WA 1829-1984 Perth: Water Authority, [1985?] Chapter 2, pp. 55-102.

Mac Gill, G.
Fremantle Prison Conservation and Future Use: History and Significance – An abridged version. Perth: Building Management Authority of WA, 1990.

Stannage, C. T. and L. Stevenson.
Stannage, C. T. and L. Stevenson.‘Why Convicts?’ in On this Side: Themes and Issues in Western Australian History. Perth: Westralian History Group/Bookland, 1985, pp.145-159.

Statham, P.
‘Why Convicts 1: an Economic Analysis of Colonial Attitudes to the Introduction of Convicts.’ Studies in Western Australian History Vol. 4, December 1981, pp. 1-10.

‘Why Convicts II; the Decision to Introduce Convicts to Swan River.’Studies in Western Australian History Vol. 4, December 1981, pp. 11-18.

‘Origin and Achievements: Convicts and the Western Australian Economy.’Westerly Vol. 30, No.3, September 1985, pp. (?)

Taylor, S.
Taylor, S. ‘The Convicts of Western Australia 1850-1868.’ Hons dissertation, UWA, 1978.

This bibliography acknowledges information gathered from two other major bibliographies in (a) A New History of Western Australia (1981) by C. T. Stannage; and (b) Study of World Heritage Values: Convict Places (Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories, 1995) by Michael Pearson and Duncan Marshall.

 

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