Alan Frost First Fleet research archive, 1718, 1775-1791 [copied and transcribed ca. 1974-2011]
Alan Frost First Fleet research archive, 1718, 1775-1791 [copied and transcribed ca. 1974-2011]
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1718, 1775-1791 [copied and transcribed ca. 1974-2011]
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3,971 text files - Microsoft Word
2 metres of textual material (12 boxes) - photocopies, computer printouts, manuscript
371 photographs - digital, JPEG, colour
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Copyright status : Unpublished textual material is out of copyright where the author(s) died more than 70 years ago, or else, it is in copyright for the life of the author(s) plus 70 years. Duration of copyright differs for material that has been made public.
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This research archive, compiled by Professor Alan Frost, documents the political and administrative processes that prompted the decision to establish a convict colony at Botany Bay and that underlay the mounting of the First Fleet and the early settlement of Sydney. It comprises transcripts and copies of primary documents sourced by Frost, over a 3...
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Alan Frost First Fleet research archive, 1718, 1775-1791 [copied and transcribed ca. 1974-2011]
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Purchased from Alan Frost, 2014
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Alan Frost (b. 1943) is Emeritus Professor of History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, where his research areas include European exploration of the Pacific Ocean, the colonisation of Australia and the First Fleet. In the 1970s he began his research into the reasons for Britain's decision to colonise New South Wales and the eventual mounting of th...
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16AJaAzn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AJaAzn
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1323840
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