A great start to 2019 with news that Yale University Press has acquired world rights to award-winning writer Graham Seal’s next history book. Condemned: The transported criminals who built Britain’s Empire will be published in 2020 and is a broad-scale study of how Britain banished its poor, its wrongdoers and its rebels to build and power an empire in America, Africa, India, South Asia and Australia. While previous books on this topic have been narrow in scope or academic in nature, Condemned will be one of the first to embrace the full global story of transportation.