Sir Simon Le Blanc, as depicted by John Opie At 2.00 a.m. on Monday 15th April 1816, the King's Bench Judge Sir Simon Le Blanc died...

Acland's memorial stone at Bath Abbey (photo copyright Robert at Flickr ) On Friday 8th March 1816, General Wroth Palmer Acland died...

'A view near Woolwich in Kent, shewing the employment of the convicts from the hulks', a hand-coloured engraving printed for Bowle...

George Coldham by William Artaud (c.1810) On Monday 18th September 1815, George Coldham, the Town Clerk of Nottingham and the Luddit...

'Hulks in Portsmouth Harbour' by Thomas Christopher Hofland , c.1830. The Halifax prisoners were held in ships similar to these at...

The home of Thomas Garton had been raided, and six knitting frames had been destroyed , on 4th September 1814. Shortly afterwards, a framewo...

A detail from 'Portsmouth Harbour with Prison Hulks' by Louis Garneray , c.1820. The Halifax prisoners were held in ships similar ...

'The entrance of Port Jackson, and part of the town of Sydney, New South Wales' an aquatint by Havell & Son, after Major Jame...

The 7 prisoners convicted and sentenced to transportation at the York Special Commission had left York for the Prison Hulk HMS Portland, mo...

The Manchester Mercury of 12th December 1812 informed it's readers that the Manufacturer Daniel Burton, owner of the steam-loom factory ...

On Monday 18th May, Edmund Eastwood, a manufacturer friend of William Horsfall, died. He had ridden alongside William Horsfall during part o...

After being shot 38 hours earlier, William Horsfall finally died at the Warren House Inn on Crosland Moor at around 8.30 a.m. on the morni...

At dawn near the road at Bulwell Forest, and at a short distance from Edward Hollingworth's wrecked house, lay the body of the man who h...

Edward Hollingworth, a Hosier at Bulwell in Nottinghamshire knew they were coming. 1 Prior to the Sunday evening of 10th November, he had r...