# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Way to Botany Bay: Sentenced to Transportation - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 11 Jan, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Sun, 11 Jan, 2026 at 03:30 pm - **Event Description**: History of Islington youths convicted of theft, jailed in Newgate and condemned to hang -- but instead they were shipped to Australia.About this EventFrom 1821 English courts began to sentence convicted criminals to penal servitude in Australia, for a set term or for life. Most never returned to England, becoming settlers of different kinds in the colony. On this walk we follow the documented story of two Islington teenagers who in 1825 were caught thieving from a shop on the Goswell Road. They were sent to Newgate Pr*son, tried at the Old Bailey, convicted and sentenced to death. In Newgate they would have met Pr*son-reformer Elizabeth Fry.After three months their sentence was commuted to transportation for life, and they were taken in a cart to Blackfriars Stairs to board a lighter to the ship Grenada anchored at Woolwich. There they waited 60 days before setting off for Botany Bay on a journey that took another three months.Convict ships were required to carry a naval surgeon to keep conditions minimally hygienic, but what did these passengers do all day? What happened in storms and when ships stopped in ports?Our teenagers survived the voyage and disembarked. Many poor folks were eager at the opportunity to start a new life, even in a penal colony, and numerous who were transported made good and helped build the new colony. Nowadays Australians are proud to be able to say their ancestors were convicts.We walk on streets not so different from those the thieves would have known: past handsome houses, prisons of Clerkenwell and Newgate and backstreets of the City before reaching the river that took them to their ship.Laura Agustín is an historian and anthropologist interested in illuminating the lives of unnamed people in history - the 'ordinary folk'. is Laura's longtime blog, focusing now on London walks with Gender, Sex and Class. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/05e2d3a0-bcd6-11f0-b7c6-b927f12f07fb-rimg-w493-h740-dc291f19-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/061a1040-bcd6-11f0-b7c6-b927f12f07fb-rimg-w987-h740-dc2e2d30-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/the-way-to-botany-bay-sentenced-to-transportation/100001857863312179 - **Event Categories**: workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fthe-way-to-botany-bay-sentenced-to-transportation-tickets-1857863312179 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 17.5, max: 17.5, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Outside Angel Station - **lat**: 51.5325447 - **long**: -0.1061859 - **full address**: Outside Angel Station, Islington High Street, London, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Laura Agustín (https://allevents.in/org/laura-agustín/21984814) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/5e4db6ccc697a3c0e4e6561a05bc2544668e0e0352b1f6e920b237b76d66982f-rimg-w1200-h1846-dcaaa9a9-gmir.jpg?v=1762628787 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/1ef32a693dd3391cf79ccf0ea6d2d2a57655224230a3205983bd29e4aba2c57a-rimg-w400-h400-dcaaa9aa-gmir.jpg?v=1762628787 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Sun, 11 Jan, 2026 at 01:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Outside Angel Station, Islington High Street, London, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 17.5 up to 17.5 GBP - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Laura Agustín - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** workshops - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Way to Botany Bay: Sentenced to Transportation ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "The Way to Botany Bay: Sentenced to Transportation", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/5e4db6ccc697a3c0e4e6561a05bc2544668e0e0352b1f6e920b237b76d66982f-rimg-w1200-h1846-dcaaa9a9-gmir.jpg?v=1762628787", "startDate": "2026-01-11", "endDate": "2026-01-11", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/the-way-to-botany-bay-sentenced-to-transportation/100001857863312179", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Outside Angel Station", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Islington High Street", "postalCode": "N1 9LQ", "addressLocality": "London", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.5325447", "longitude": "-0.1061859" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "History of Islington youths convicted of theft, jailed in Newgate and condemned to hang -- but instead they were shipped to Australia.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-01-11", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "17.50", "highPrice": "17.50", "price": "17.50", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/the-way-to-botany-bay-sentenced-to-transportation/100001857863312179" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/the-way-to-botany-bay-sentenced-to-transportation/100001857863312179", "price": "17.50", "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Laura Agustn", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/laura-agustín/21984814", "description": "Laura Agustín has been a writer, researcher and critical historian — not to say rebel —all her life. She has been a Londoner since the 1960s, although she has lived in numerous countries. Author of \nSex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry\n, she has for many years focused on getting the stories out of women marginalised because of being poor, foreign, ‘different’ or doing jobs some folks think are wrong. She spends time in the Manuscript Room of the British Library looking for clues to how women lived 1000 years ago, and couldn’t stop reading even if she wanted to. She is known as \nThe Naked Anthropologist.\nShe has qualified as a tour guide in order to take this focus to the streets, where guided history walks rarely talk about the poor except as objects of charity. " } ] } ] ```