As part of 2016  NSW  History Week celebrations, The History@Newcastle Research Seminar Series presented Tamsin O’Connor, “Bad Neighbours: the Smugglers and Pirates of the Penal Station and Port of Newcastle, 1804 – 1824.” Abstract The theme for 2016’s History week is neighbours and it is not one that sits easily in the context of penal station … More Smugglers and Pirates of Newcastle, 1804-1824