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projecting light onto a dark history – how mid-century cinema resurrected Port Arthur’s convict past

  • Written by James Findlay, Sessional Lecturer in History, University of Sydney
projecting light onto a dark history – how mid-century cinema resurrected Port Arthur’s convict pastState Library Victoria

Tourism was an early money-spinner in Tasmania, with Port Arthur featuring on travel circuits by the late 1800s.

In the years following the penal station’s closure in 1877, an influx of local and interstate tourists encouraged guides (including some ex-convicts) to set up shop at the settlement, walking visitors...

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