Now a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Factory runs a variety of guided tours, dramatic performances and creative writing workshops ...
Immersive history excursion: female convict prison a link to untold stories
Largely eradicated from our history books and barely a blip in our national consciousness, the extraordinary stories of female convicts who found themselves at the mercy of the Cascades Female Factory in Tasmania during colonial times present a powerful – if not soul-clenching – learning experience.
“The experience is all about trying to immerse young people into those stories of the women who were here," Katy Warner explains.