Children's homes a history of institutional care for Britain's young

"What image does the word 'orphanage' conjure up in your mind? A sunny scene of carefree children at play in the grounds of a large ivy-clad house? Or a forbidding grey edifice whose cowering inmates were ruled over with a rod of iron by a stern, starched matron? In Children's Ho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Higginbotham, Peter, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History 2022
Edición:First published in Great Britain in 2017 and reprinted in 2022 by Pen & Sword History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Early children's homes
  • 2. Reformatories, ragged and industrial schools
  • 3. Approved schools
  • 4. Training ships
  • 5. The Shaftesbury homes and 'Arethusa'
  • 6. Muller's orphan houses
  • 7. Barnardo's homes
  • 8. The National Children's Home
  • 9. The Waifs and Strays Society
  • 10. Occupational homes
  • 11. Other voluntary homes
  • 12. Religious homes
  • 13. Children with disabilities
  • 14. Fund raising
  • 15. Poor Law homes
  • 16. Emigration homes
  • 17. Boarding out/fostering
  • 18. Aftercare and preventive work
  • 19. Magdalen homes
  • 20. Local authority children's homes
  • 21. Life in children's homes
  • 22. Abuse in children's homes
  • 23. A future for children's homes?
  • 24. Children's home records
  • 25. Useful resources.