© Meg Dillon 2008 Dr Margaret (Meg) Dillon Dr Meg Dillon graduated in 2008 and is a social historian who lives in Benalla (Victoria, Australia) and has a strong interest in convict and regional studies, especially the exploration of convicts as the first colonial working class in the Australian colonies. Her original research focused on Tasmania and the groups of convict workers employed in the Midlands of Tasmania, a rich farming district populated by middle class settlers with the capital to establish farms of several thousand acres. Her thesis is available on this website as well as on the Library of the University of Tasmania website: Convict Labour and Colonial Society in the Campbell Town Police District: 1820 to 1839. Transported Women Meg has edited The Report Enquiring into the Present State of Female Convict Discipline in this Colony (Van Diemen's Land}: December 1842 which is only available in manuscript form from the Archives of Tasmania. This report was never printed and made available to the public, but now it provides detailed information for historians about women's behaviour during periods of incarceration as well as the anxieties prison authorities experienced about their inability to reform the general female prison population and break the will of the persistent resisters. You can soon access her edited version of the manuscript and associated papers on this web site. Police District: 1820 to 1839. Current Projects Taungurung Project Benalla Project