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The '1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang’, compiled by thrice-transported thief and fraudster James Hardy Vaux, was a best-seller in convict Australia.
Vaux’s extensive compendium of underworld slang, compiled whilst Vaux was an inmate of Newcastle‘s Penal Station, lifted the lid on the “flash” language which transported felons used to disguise their crimes.
Two hundred years after its original publication, Vaux’s dictionary has been revived in a new edition by Tasmanian-born author and self-confessed ‘convict nerd’ Simon Barnard.
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