[PDF] Fairbridge Kid eBook

Author : David Hill
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1760638773

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In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in Sussex - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in Australia where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. David was lucky - his mother was able to follow him out to Australia - but for most children, the reality was shockingly different. From 1938 to 1974 thousands of parents were persuaded to sign over legal guardianship of their children to Fairbridge to solve the problem of child poverty in Britain while populating the colony. Now many of those children have decided to speak out. Physical and sexual abuse was not uncommon. Loneliness was rife. Food was often inedible. The standard of education was appalling. Here, for the first time, is the story of the lives of the Fairbridge children, from the bizarre luxury of the voyage out to Australia to the harsh reality of the first days there; from the crushing daily routine to stolen moments of freedom and the struggle that defined life after leaving the school. This remarkable book is both a tribute to the children who were betrayed by an ideal that went terribly awry and a fascinating account of an extraordinary episode in British history.

Author : Geoffrey Sherington
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Children with social disabilities
ISBN : 0713002069

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jon Lawrence
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780853236764

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Recent historical work has done much to focus attention on changing conceptions of children's rights during the 19th and 20th centuries. These essays address a variety of themes including the abuse of children, and the role of the welfare state.

Author : Emily X.R. Pan
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 031646404X

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Romeo and Juliet meets Chinese mythology in this magical novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Astonishing Color of After. Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He’s sick of being haunted by his family’s past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, a supernatural wind, and the bewitching girl at his new high school. Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms ahead, and her parents’ expectations are stifling. When she begins to break the rules, she finds her life upended by the strange new boy in her class, the arrival of unearthly fireflies, and an ominous crack spreading across the town of Fairbridge. As Hunter and Luna navigate their families’ enmity and secrets, everything around them begins to fall apart. All they can depend on is their love…but time is running out, and fate will have its way. An Arrow to the Moon, Emily X.R. Pan’s brilliant and ethereal follow-up to The Astonishing Color of After, is a story about family, love, and the magic and mystery of the moon that connects us all.

Author : Ellen Boucher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107041384

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A definitive history of child emigration across the British Empire from the 1860s to its decline in the 1960s.

Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0300256221

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A powerful account of how coerced migration built the British Empire In the early seventeenth century, Britain took ruthless steps to deal with its unwanted citizens, forcibly removing men, women, and children from their homelands and sending them to far-flung corners of the empire to be sold off to colonial masters. This oppressive regime grew into a brutal system of human bondage which would continue into the twentieth century. Drawing on firsthand accounts, letters, and official documents, Graham Seal uncovers the traumatic struggles of those shipped around the empire. He shows how the earliest large-scale kidnapping and transportation of children to the American colonies were quickly bolstered with shipments of the poor, criminal, and rebellious to different continents, including Australia. From Asia to Africa, this global trade in forced labor allowed Britain to build its colonies while turning a considerable profit. Incisive and moving, this account brings to light the true extent of a cruel strand in the history of the British Empire.

Author : Chris Jeffery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1136224866

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This study investigates the motives for the establishment of the Fairbridge child migration scheme, examines its history in Australia and Canada, and outlines the experiences of many of the former child migrants.

Author : Jon Lawrence
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780853236863

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This collection of twelve essays represents an important contribution to the understanding of child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They challenge many assumptions about the history of childhood and child welfare policy and cover a variety of themes including the physical and sexual abuse of children, forced child migration and role of the welfare state.