Annegret HallBorn in Germany, Annegret Hall married an Australian in 1992 and moved to Perth, where she worked in materials science at the University of WA, and as a quality assurance manager for a nanotechnology firm. She has co-authored a number of papers in scentific journals, including Nature. Annegret has always been fascinated by early colonial history, and since her retirement has researched original sources about convicts transported to Australia. This has led her to question a number of the widely-accepted views on poor convict behavior conveyed by early histories of the First Fleet. Read More Read Less