Australia Begins in London  New Walk!

Convicts, colonists, dreamers and rebels in the City streets where a nation’s story first took shape…

Australia’s history tales in London’s Square Mile

This walk in the City of London traces the routes of convicts, colonists, activists merchants and musicians — from Blackfriars Station to the Bank of England. Discover the young woman who, as a convict, went on the first voyage to the penal colony of New South Wales and very soon became Australia’s first teacher. The suppliers of essentials for that first voyage.  The man who dreamt of setting up a free colony and the man who made it happen. And the Aboriginal person who fought for the rights and protection of his people in the courts and on the streets of London.