Episode Synopsis "Forgotten Convicts - Episode 2 - Agency & Complaints"

Episode 2 of Forgotten Convicts, a podcast hosted by Dr. Emma Watkins about the lives of convicts transported to Australia in the 19th century. This episode is all about the agency of pauper-emancipists. From the avoidance of those institutions, to the complaints they made about the conditions they lived in within them, to breaking the rules and causing disruption. Despite spending much of their lives within institutions, or perhaps because of it, they knew how to push back against the system!

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More episodes of the podcast The Forgotten Convicts Podcast

• Forgotten Convicts - Episode 1 - Introduction to Forgotten Convicts
• Forgotten Convicts - Episode 2 - Agency & Complaints
• Forgotten Convicts - Episode 3 - Female Pauper-Emancipists
• Forgotten Convicts - Episode 4 - Social Mobility
• Forgotten Convicts - Episode 5 - The Changing Charitable System
• Forgotten Convicts - Episode 6 - The Ending of the Charitable System?