# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Colonial Worlds of Vulnerability: Poverty, Vagrancy and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 07 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 am – Sat, 07 Feb, 2026 at 02:30 am
- **Event Description**: Historians have used vagrancy as a window onto historical processes, including economic processes, labour and human migration, urbanisation, and responses to poverty.

This talk describes the different aspects of the profile of those more vulnerable to police surveillance and regulation in the colonies including poverty, age, disability and mobile families and tells the stories of some of those people arrested and prosecuted for being vagrants. It offers a reminder of the socio-economic factors at play in creating definitions of unauthorised mobility that are also relevant in our present moment.

The presentation also examines the entangled worlds of colonial Australia and New Zealand and movement between these places in the nineteenth century.

Catharine Coleborne is an Australian academic historian of illness, health and medicine, especially mental illness and institutions. Her career contributions include a focus on patients, asylum records and medical case book narratives in the archive, and interactions between families and medical personnel in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

She has written about changing understandings of health and illness and has published numerous books, chapters and journal articles and her work is internationally recognised. She is currently leading an Australian Research Council project (with Dr Effie Karageorgos) focused on mental health aftercare in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia, 1900 to 1960.

She is currently based at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales where she is a Professor in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences. Her most recent book is Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility, 1840-1910 (Bloomsbury, 2024).

Image: ‘Here and there; or, emigration, a remedy’. Punch, London, 8 July 1848, reproduced courtesy of Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

REF: PUBL-0043-1848-15. Records/23241802
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/liverpool/colonial-worlds-of-vulnerability-poverty-vagrancy-and-the-law-in-the-nineteenth-century/200029472828742
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, mental-health
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 15

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Liverpool
- **state**: NS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Cnr Congressional Drive and Hume Highway, Liverpool, NSW, Australia, New South Wales 2170
- **lat**: -33.933805467463
- **long**: 150.91696838302
- **full address**: Cnr Congressional Drive and Hume Highway, Liverpool, NSW, Australia, New South Wales 2170

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Colonial Worlds of Vulnerability: Poverty, Vagrancy and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century being held?
  - **A:** Colonial Worlds of Vulnerability: Poverty, Vagrancy and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century takes place on Sat, 07 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 am to Sat, 07 Feb, 2026 at 02:30 am at Cnr Congressional Drive and Hume Highway, Liverpool, NSW, Australia, New South Wales 2170.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Colonial Worlds of Vulnerability: Poverty, Vagrancy and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century?
  - **A:** Colonial Worlds of Vulnerability: Poverty, Vagrancy and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century is organized by Liverpool Regional Museum.

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