Dear all This may be of interest to those of you in Sydney who are seeking to follow the trail of convicts escaping from Port Jackson via privateers and whalers in the early convict era. Wed, 5th June at 1pm at RAHS, 133 Macquarie Street, this lecture results from my Churchill Trust project on British and colonial Australian records in Spanish language archives. Topic: *"Privateering in the Pacific Ocean – the role of Sydney in the downfall of the Spanish Empire 1793-1823"* Full details can be found at: *http://tinyurl.com/RAHS-lecture-2013-06-05 * * * cheers Chris Maxworthy* *