[PDF] Lost Children Of The Empire eBook

Author : Philip Bean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1351171992

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Originally published in 1989. The extraordinary story of Britain’s child migrants is one of 350 years of shaming exploitation. Around 130,000 children, some just 3 or 4 years old, were shipped off to distant parts of the Empire, the last as recently as 1967. For Britain it was a cheap way of emptying children’s homes and populating the colonies with ‘good British stock’; for the colonies it was a source of cheap labour. Even after the Second World War around 10,000 children were transported to Australia – where many were subjected to at best uncaring abandonment, and at worst a regime of appalling cruelty. Lost Children of the Empire tells the remarkable story of the Child Migrants Trust, set up in 1987, to trace families and to help those involved to come to terms with what has happened. But nothing can explain away the connivance and irresponsibility of the governments and organisations involved in this inhuman chapter of British history.

Author : Tara Zahra
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0674048245

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World War II tore apart an unprecedented number of families. This is the heartbreaking story of the humanitarian organizations, governments, and refugees that tried to rehabilitate Europe’s lost children from the trauma of war, and in the process shaped Cold War ideology, ideals of democracy and human rights, and modern visions of the family.

Author : Vivian Gibson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1948742799

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Vivian Gibson's bestselling memoir of growing up in the 1950s in a segregated St. Louis neighborhood has been hailed by critics as "a spare, elegant jewel of a work" and "a love letter to Gibson's childhood."

Author : Ellen Boucher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 15,15 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 : Michael Farah
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1800468075

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Written entirely in the first person and fully based on accurate historical accounts, Michael Farah imagines how this royal family would have described the events of their extraordinary existence, scandals, loves, triumphs and tragedies.

Author : Nick Frost
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415312547

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This collection focuses on child welfare in its specific sense: welfare and social interventions with children and young people undertaken by State bodies or NGO's. The term 'child welfare' is deployed differently in diverse international settings. In the United Kingdom child welfare tends to refer to individualised programmes for children who have experienced problems in their lives. In India, to take a contrasting example, it can also refer to major housing and nutrition programmes. This collection takes an inclusive approach to international perspectives.The collection is completed by a new general introduction by the editor, individual volume introductions, and a full index.Titles also available in this series include, Medical Sociology (November 2004, 4 Volumes, 495) and the forthcoming collection Health Care Systems (2005, 3 Volumes, c.395).

Author : Lydia Murdoch
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0813541026

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With his dirty, tattered clothes and hollowed-out face, the image of Oliver Twist is the enduring symbol of the young indigent spilling out of the orphanages and haunting the streets of late-nineteenth-century London. He is the victim of two evils: an aristocratic ruling class and, more directly, neglectful parents. Although poor children were often portrayed as real-life Oliver Twists-either orphaned or abandoned by unworthy parents-they, in fact, frequently maintained contact and were eventually reunited with their families.In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on this discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions-a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship. Reformers' efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or "no-good" parents fed upon the poor's increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public's growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children.With a critical eye to social issues of the period, Murdoch urges readers to reconsider the stereotypically dire situation of families living in poverty. While reformers' motivations seem well-intentioned, she shows how their methods solidified the public's anti-poor sentiment and justified a minimalist welfare state that engendered a cycle of poverty. As they worked to fashion model citizens, reformers' efforts to protect and care for children took on an increasingly imperial cast that would continue into the twentieth century.