Convict Housing at Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia: a study in the context of British workers’ and American slave accommodation
Author(s): Harold Mytum
Year: 2017
Summary
Parramatta was even more successful than Sydney in the late 18th century,
during the early days of the British colony. After a short period of ad hoc
settlement around the farm at Rose Hill, Parramatta was laid out as a planned
settlement on a grid pattern. Several early convict cabins have been excavated,
and early maps and illustrations indicate the settlement’s layout and
appearance, with neatly spaced cabins and the Governor’s House as a central
focus. This arrangement can be compared with both planned settlements in
Britain produced in the context of improvement, and plantation slave
settlements usually interpreted in terms of control and display. What were the
motivations of the authorities in Australia and how did the convicts react?
This paper examines the architecture of the domestic unit and the settlement as
a whole in Parramatta over its first decades, and the conflicting visions and
aspirations reflected there.
Cite this Record
Convict Housing at Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia: a study in the context of British workers’ and American slave accommodation. Harold Mytum. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435159)
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Keywords
General
Convicts
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Housing
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Planning
Geographic Keywords
United Kingdom
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
18th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -8.158; min lat: 49.955 ; max long: 1.749; max lat: 60.722 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 180