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From ‘disgrace and pollution’ to ‘pride’: how Australians came to embrace their convict family ties

Convictism “left a stain” on Australia’s penal colonies “which time alone will be able to efface”, according to the South Australian Register newspaper in 1856.

The Conversation · Sep 27

Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people

New book reveals that Pacific islands inhabitants helped European scientists identify hundreds of plant species

The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2025

Darwin’s plant specimens stored for 200 years to go on public display

Specimens collected on Voyage of the Beagle have been unearthed at Cambridge University archive

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2024