Both strategic and commercial motives guided the British government’s choice of New South Wales as a convict colony.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has helped researchers generate what they believe could have been the faces of Welsh convicts sent to Australia in the 19th Century. The lives of 60 criminals deported ...