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Luke Sarah |
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Like a wicked Noah's Ark : the Nautical School Ships Vernon & Sobraon / / Sarah Luke |
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North Melbourne, Victoria : , : Arcadia, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (414 pages) |
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Juvenile delinquency - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.) - History - 19th century |
Reformatories - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.) - History - 19th century |
Trade schools - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.) - History - 19th century |
Juvenile delinquency |
Reformatories |
Social conditions |
Trade schools |
Sydney (N.S.W.) History 19th century |
Sydney (N.S.W.) Social conditions 19th century |
New South Wales Sydney |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Step back in time to 1860s Sydney, when ragged children populated the harbour city's slums, picking pockets and scraping a living selling matches and watercress. Neglected youths formed the city's gangs, thieving and assaulting the unwary. These 'larrikins' often ended up in gaol, and received a thorough criminal education from Faginesque professors of the art. In 1867 a solution to this problem was found. Fitted out for the reception of New South Wales' delinquent and abandoned boys, a Nautical School Ship was moored permanently within sight of Circular Quay on Sydney Harbour. The Colony's prisons were drained of their young inmates, and they were herded together in |
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their dozens -- and later, hundreds -- on board. Like a Wicked Noah's Ark is the full and close-up history of this ground-breaking experiment in juvenile reformation, which operated continuously until 1911 on the Vernon and Sobraon. |
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