Focusing on different occupations, the series Colonial People explores aspects of everyday life, job responsibilities and social activities in colonial Australia. Winner of the Primary Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities The Australian Educational Publishing Awards. Key features include extracts from a range of primary and secondary sources, 1st-person narrative features, illustrated 'A Day in the Life' case studies, and hands-on projects. Topics covered include domestic servants, squatters, gold diggers, and convict labourers. In Convict Labourers, travel back to the 1840s and meet Billy, a 14-year-old convict labourer in Tasmania. Interesting and engaging reading.