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Our Country’s Good at the National Theatre, London SE1
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THE PRACTICE of transportation — enforced exile — to Australia for the most insignificant misdemeanour was one which blighted the British legal system until 1868, by which time 164,000 had been sent to penal colonies, among them the Tolpuddle Martyrs in 1830.
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