| ID |
Code |
Title |
Author |
Description |
Home(s) |
| 13992 |
CAN1 |
Apologising for Serious Wrongdoing: Social, Psychological, and Legal Considerations |
Susan Alter, Researcher, Law Commission of Canada, May 1999 |
The paper discusses why apologies are necessary, what goes into making a meaningful apology and compares apologies made in court based and non-court based legal processes. |
- |
| 13993 |
CAN2 |
Home Children Canada Newsletters |
May & August, 2001 |
Two newsletters from May 2001 & August 2001 by Home Children Canada an organisation for former child migrants founded by David & Kay Lorente. |
BICA Farm & Dr. Barnardo's' charity |
| 13994 |
CAN3 |
Institutional Child Abuse in Canada: Criminal Cases |
Goldie Shea, Law Commission of Canada, October 1999 |
A research paper containing lists of criminal cases involving allegations of institutional child abuse in Canada. |
St Joseph’s Training School for Boys, Grandview School for Girls and more |
| 13995 |
CAN4 |
The Little Immigrants – The Orphans Who Came to Canada |
Kenneth Bagnell, The Dundurn Press, 2001 |
The book is a tale of compassion and courage of the 100,000 impoverished children sent to Canada from the British Isles known as the “Home Children”. |
Barnardo Homes, The Fegan Receiving Home in Toronto, Quarrier’s Fairknowe Home in Ontario and more |
| 13996 |
CAN5 |
Neither Waif Nor Stray: The Search For A Stolen Identity |
Perry Snow, Universal Publishers, 2000 |
The book describes how difficult it was retrieving vital information on his Father’s identity and birth. His Father was a part of the British Child Emigration Scheme in Canada known as The Home Children. |
Church of England Waifs and Strays Society |
| 13997 |
CAN6 |
Passing Innocence – A novel |
Francis Dwyer, Trafford Publishing, 2002 |
The book defines the experience of growing up in a Canadian residential institution. |
Wood’s Christian Home for Children |
| 13998 |
CAN7 |
My Father’s House – A Memoir of Incest and of Healing |
Sylvia Fraser, Virago Press, 1989 |
As an adult Sylvia had no recollection of a sexual relationship with her father, yet some connection remained - pain, terror and guilt. With eloquence, candour and courage Sylvia breaks through her amnesia to discover and embrace the other self she left behind. |
- |
| 13999 |
CAN8 |
Who Says I Can’t? |
Catherine DeVrye, Bantam, 2005 |
A memoir of how an abandoned child then adopted by loving parents in Canada decided to search for her biological parents as an adult. |
- |
| 14000 |
CAN9 |
Restoring Dignity: Responding to Child Abuse in Canadian Institutions – Executive Summary |
Law Commission of Canada, March 2000 |
Executive summary in both French and English. |
- |
| 14001 |
CAN10 |
Needs and Expectations for Redress of Victims of Abuse |
Sage, Law Commission of Canada, 1998 |
A final report submitted to the Law Commission of Canada on the needs and expectations for redress of victims of abuse at residential schools. |
- |
| 14002 |
CAN11 |
Institutional Child Abuse in Canada: Civil cases |
Prepared by Goldie M. Shea for the Law Commission of Canada, October 1999 |
Contains reported cases, unresolved cases and residential school litigation statistics. |
- |
| 14003 |
CAN12 |
Review of The Needs of Victims of Institutional Child Abuse |
Submitted by the Institute for Human Resource Development to the Law Commission of Canada, 16th October 1998 |
A final report of the needs of Victims of Institutional abuse. |
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| ID |
Code |
Title |
Author |
Description |
Home(s) |
| 14138 |
IRE1 |
IRE1 |
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| 14139 |
IRE2 |
IRE2 |
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| 14140 |
IRE3 |
Always in the Convent Shadow |
Margaret Matley, Poppy Publications, 1991 |
The writer recalls her childhood in a Convent school run by the Good Shepherd Nuns after the death of her mother. |
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| 14141 |
IRE4 |
Angela’s Ashes |
Frank McCourt, Harper Collins, 1996 |
A sad, bittersweet, funny memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in 40s. |
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| 14142 |
IRE5 |
Bridge Across My Sorrows |
Christina Noble with Robert Coram, Corgi Books, 1995 |
A book on the Christina Noble's story from growing up in the slums of Dublin to helping the street children of Vietnam. |
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| 14143 |
IRE6 |
IRE6 |
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| 14144 |
IRE7 |
Don’t Ever Tell: Kathy’s story: A tale of a childhood destroyed by neglect and fear |
Kathy O'Beirne, Mainstream Publishing, 2006 |
With no one to confide in, Kathy suffered in silence as she was battered by her father and molested by local boys. At the age of eight, she was torn from her family and incarcerated in a series of Catholic homes. When she was sent to a psychiatric unit, she suffered terrifying electric-shock therapy and further cruelty at the hands of her supposed carers. After ending up in a Magdalen laundry, she fell victim to sexual abuse and gave birth to baby Annie just weeks before her fourteenth birthday. Don't Ever Tell is Kathy's harrowing account of her ruined childhood and of her subsequent fight for justice. |
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| 14145 |
IRE8 |
Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland |
Frances Finnegan, Oxford University Press, 2004 |
A fairly comprehensive but not overly academic look at the asylums in Ireland's Good Shepherd Magdalen Laundries which existed from the late 1800s into the mid 1960s and eared a reputation for their cruelty as opposed to their spiritual foundations. |
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| 14146 |
IRE9 |
Evelyn: A True Story |
Evelyn Doyle, Orian Media, 2002 |
The heartrending true story of a Father's fight to reclaim his children from the Irish government in the 1950s and, in the process, free hundreds of other children who had been taken from their families. |
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| 14147 |
IRE10 |
IRE10 |
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| 14148 |
IRE11 |
Fear of the Collar – My Terrifying Childhood in Artane |
Patrick Touher, The O'Brien Press, 2001 |
The inside story of eight long years spent Artane Industrial School run by the Christian Brothers. |
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| 14149 |
IRE12 |
For the Love of my Mother |
J.P. Rodgers, MacRuairi Art, 2005 |
This book is son's portrayal of his mother's life. The writer's mother was sent to the Magdalen Laundries. See IRE31. |
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| 14150 |
IRE13 |
Freedom of Angels – Surviving Goldenbridge Orphanage |
Bernadette Fahy, O'Brien Press, 1999 |
The inside story of growing up in one of Ireland's most notorious orphanages, where children were made to pay for the 'sins' of their parents. Bernadette tells of the pain, fear, hunger, hard labour and isolation experienced in the orphanage. |
|
| 14151 |
IRE14 |
Kathy’s Story – Inside the hell of Ireland’s notorious Magdalen Sisters’ Laundries |
Kathy O'Beirne, Harper Collins Publishers, 2005 |
A true story of Kathy's forcible removal from her family and incarcerated in a series of institutions and later placed at a Magdalen Laundry. |
|
| 14152 |
IRE15 |
Mercy College Summerhill Athlone 1998 |
Mercy College Summerhill |
A booklet on the year 1997/1998. |
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| 14153 |
IRE16 |
No One Wants You: A true story of a child forced into prostitution |
Celine Roberts, Ebury Press, 2008 |
A memoir of a child forced into prostitution in rural Ireland and then placed in an Industrial School. |
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| 14154 |
IRE17 |
Reminiscences of Life in Baltimore Industrial School |
Alfie O'Mahony, 2006 |
An autobiography on growing up in a Kilkenny Orphanage and Baltimore Industrial School. |
|
| 14155 |
IRE18 |
Sister Genevieve: The story of a remarkable yet little-known heroine of our time |
John Rae, Little, Brown and Company, 2001 |
Sister Genevieve is the biography of an inspirational headteacher and a fascinating and highly complex woman. It is also a unique insight into the Troubles from the point of view of the ‘civilians' who were living on the front line. A woman of great courage and spirituality, she devoted her life to the education of the girls of West Belfast during the Troubles, defying the Catholic church, the IRA and the British army in her determination to give her underprivileged girls the best possible start in life. |
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| 14156 |
IRE19 |
IRE19 |
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| 14157 |
IRE20 |
IRE20 |
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| 14158 |
IRE21 |
The God Squad |
Paddy Doyle, Corgi Books, 1988 |
This award winning bestseller is a moving and terrifying testament of the institutionalised Ireland. His mother died from cancer in 1955. His father committed suicide shortly thereafter. Paddy Doyle was sentenced in an Irish district court to be detained in an industrial school for eleven years. He was four years old... |
|
| 14159 |
IRE22 |
The Institute of Charity: Rosminians – Their Irish Story 1860-2003 |
Bríd Fahey Bates PHD, Ashfield Press Publishing Services, 2003 |
A book detailing the members of the Irish Province of the Institute of Charity and documents the Irish story for the Rosminian community. |
|
| 14160 |
IRE23 |
IRE23 |
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| 14161 |
IRE24 |
The Raggy Boy Trilogy |
Patrick Galvin, New Island Books, 2002 |
A stunning trilogy of memoirs. The first two of the trilogy recount the author's early life in 1930s Cork and brutal suffering at the hands of the Christian Brothers. |
|
| 14162 |
IRE25 |
The Stolen Child: A Memoir |
Joe Dunne, Marino Books, 2003 |
A true story of growing up in Carriglea Park Industrial School run by the Christian Brothers and Industrial Schools in Kilkenny and Dublin. |
|
| 14163 |
IRE26 |
Please Don’t Make Me Go |
John Fenton, Harper Element, 2008 |
A memoir on growing up only knowing violence, John after threatening his father with a knife he was sent to St Vincent's School run by the Catholic Irish Brothers. A painfully, brutal honest account that is an example of the resilience of the human spirit as it documents how John learnt to survive and come through his ordeal. |
|
| 14164 |
IRE27 |
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse – Third Interim Report (December 2003) |
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Unable to borrow* |
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| 14165 |
IRE28 |
Founded on Fear |
Peter Tyrrell, edited by Diarimuid Whelan, Transworld Ireland, 2008 |
A memoir of a tormented childhood in Letterfrack Industrial School run by the Christian Brothers. |
|
| 14166 |
IRE29 |
The Misremembered Man |
Christina McKenna, Amazon Encore, 2008 |
A work of fiction that touches on the institutional life in the industrial schools, orphanages and Magdalen Laundries. |
|
| 14167 |
IRE30 |
Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes |
Martha Long, Mainstream Publishing, 2007 |
The writer details how she was born to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin. |
|
| 14168 |
IRE31 |
For the Love of My Mother 2 |
John Rodgers, Headline Review, 2005 |
A truly gripping tale told by the son his mother thought she'd lost forever. This book is son's portrayal of his mother's life. The writer's mother's childhood lost to institutions and then she was placed at one of Ireland's infamous Magdalen Laundries. See IRE12. |
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| 14169 |
IRE32 |
The Boy from Glin Industrial School |
Tom Wall (Glin), 2013 |
A true story of a childhood spent in St Joseph's Industrial School and Glin Industrial School. This book takes you inside the walls of the Industrial School - run by a Catholic Religious Order - and describes in detail the daily routine of the harsh regime which the boys had to submit to on a day to day basis. |
|
| 14170 |
IRE33 |
The Light in the Window |
June Goulding, Poolbeg Press, 1998 |
The Irish bestseller describes what happened to countless unmarried women. Jane Goulding, a midwife, arrived at the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and made small changes that made a big difference to the women. |
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| 14171 |
IRE34 |
IRE34 |
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| 14172 |
IRE35 |
Childhood Interrupted – Growing up under the cruel regime of the Sisters of Mercy |
Kathleen O'Malley, Virago Press UK, 2005 |
A memoir of a stolen childhood spend in Mount Carmel Industrial School run by the Sisters of Mercy in County Westmeath, Ireland. Kathleen and her sisters were subjected to beatings, humiliation, hard labour, and near-starvation, until they were finally permitted to leave at the age of 16. Childhood Interrupted is Kathleen's inspiring, profoundly affecting story. |
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| 14173 |
IRE36 |
The Boy at the Gate – A Memoir |
Danny Ellis, Transworld Ireland, 2012 |
A profoundly moving memoir of life in the notorious Artane Industrial School and a testament to the healing power of music and forgiveness. |
|
| 14174 |
IRE37 |
Marilyn’s Child |
Lynne Pemberton, Harper Collins Publishers, 2000 |
A fictional tale of an orphan who searches for her true identity. |
|
| 14175 |
IRE38 |
Agony Of Desertion |
Melissa Barron, Tony Souleiman, 1994 |
The compelling true story of a mothers' betrayal and devastating effects it had on her five young children. |
|
| 14176 |
IRE39 |
Suffer the Little Children – The Inside Story of Ireland’s Industrial Schools |
Mary Raftery & Eoin O'Sullivan, New Island, 1999 |
A book that exposes a hidden Ireland of Industrial Schools, reform schools, convents and orphanages. |
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| 14177 |
IRE40 |
Ma, Jackser’s Dyin Alone |
Martha Long, Mainstream Publishing, 2013 |
A memoir of a books series. On hearing that Jackser, her childhood abuser, is seriously ill, Martha is elated, thinking that finally she will be able to watch him suffer. But in the hospital she sees a frightened, lonely old man and realises with a shock that he seems to regret his earlier actions. During her vigil, she is joined by Charlie, her beloved little brother, then the ma and some of her other siblings. All of them have suffered greatly and it is clear that no one connected to Jackser has escaped unscathed. But as she sits with him during his dying days, other memories of Jackser come back to Martha - fleeting moments of concern and kindness, and a sense of closeness as he recalled his own tormented past in one of Ireland's industrial schools. It is a vicious cycle of cruelty and loss that has played out, from which only her own tenacity and wit has provided an escape. Poignant, ribald, poetic and defiant, with its resolution of many unanswered questions about her life this is Martha at her best. |
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| 14178 |
IRE41 |
The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and A Fifty-Year Search |
Martin Sixsmith, Macmillan, 2009 |
A nonfiction book about the heartbreaking story of a mother sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary and after caring for her son for three years the Church took him from her and sold him to America for adoption. |
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| 14179 |
IRE42 |
In Harm’s Way – A childhood lost – A Life Reclaimed |
Sean Hogan with Michael Cameron, Arrow Books, 2008 |
A biography of Sean Hogan's time at Artane Industrial School. |
|
| 14180 |
IRE43 |
Missing – Missing without a Trace in Ireland |
Barry Cummins, Gill & Macmillan, 2003 |
The book examines cases of Ireland's missing women and children who have vanished in sinister and mysterious circumstances. |
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| 14181 |
IRE44 |
Annie’s Girl: How an Abandoned Orphan Finally Discovered the Truth About Her Mother |
Maureen Coppinger, Mainstream Publishing, 2009 |
Maureen Coppinger's earliest memory is of watching the woman she believed to be her mother walk away and abandon her to the care of the nuns at one of Ireland's notorious industrial schools. She was just three years old. She remained in the orphanage until the age of 16, subjected to cruelty and neglect, and starved of love and affection. It was an environment from which no one emerged unscathed. Throughout these tormented years, Maureen dreamed only of escape, and when she was contacted again by her mammy she believed all her dreams were about to come true. Life in the outside world brought its own challenges, however, and Maureen was thrown into turmoil when she discovered that the truth about her past was more murky than she had ever realised. Annie's Girl stands apart as a poignant testimony to the resilience of the human heart. This touching and evocative memoir is the incredible story of an illegitimate industrial-school survivor's profound struggle to overcome a shame-filled past and solve the mystery of her origins. |
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| 14182 |
IRE45 |
Goldenbridge – A View From Valparaiso |
Teresita Durkan, Veritas Publications, 1997 |
The story of Goldenbridge Industrial School. |
|
| 14183 |
IRE46 |
Haunting Cries: Stories of Child Abuse from Irish Industrial Schools |
Karen Coleman, Gill & Macmillan, 2010 |
Haunting Cries chronicles 11 stories of institutional child abuse in the survivors' own words. It brings the tragic tale of abuse up to date to include the publication and fall-out from the Ryan Commission Report and the Redress Board. The book also adds a fresh -- post-Ryan -- perspective on why the religious orders engaged in such systemic abuse. Up until the Ryan Report, most of them were reluctant to admit to the scale of abuse that their orders meted out to the children in their care. Haunting Cries investigates how they dealt with the damning indictments against them. The stories of the survivors take into account that new perspective. We hear their views on whether the Ryan Commission and the Redress Board have adequately given them the compensation, vindication and justice they feel they deserve. Haunting Cries is an important book. It gives these survivors a voice, allowing us to hear the testimonies of those who for so long were silenced. |
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| 14184 |
IRE47 |
Inmate 651 – The Luck of the Irish |
Michael Coll, Book Hub Publishing, 2019 |
The true story of Michael Coll, an Irish child born in a "mother/baby" Home in Stranorlar, in County Donegal, Ireland in 1944 and how his journey lead him to be eventually adopted by an Irish American Family. Appendix includes several articles that give a brief history of conditions in Ireland during the 40's; 50's and 60's when unmarried pregnant women were considered outcast by their own families, the Catholic Church and the Irish Government. |
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| 14185 |
IRE48 |
Those Who Trespass Against Us: Based on the Life of Walter O’Keeffe |
Toni O'Keeffe, Trafford Publishing, 2009 |
A disturbing look at the suffering of one small orphaned, Irish boy and the abuse he endured between 1939-1948, when the Irish legal system and the church had gone mad with regard to the care of children. |
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| 14186 |
IRE49 |
Painful Decisions |
Mary Larkin, Sphere, 2007 |
A tale of love, romance and jealousy set in 1920s Belfast. |
|
| 14187 |
IRE50 |
Scars that Run Deep – Sometimes the Nightmares Don’t End |
Patrick Touher, Ebury Press, 2008 |
A memoir of the Artane Industrial School run by the Christian Brothers and the sequel to Fear of the Collar. |
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| 14188 |
IRE51 |
The National Counselling Service – First Report for adults who have experienced childhood abuse |
The Health Boards Executive, from September 2000 to September 2001 |
First Report on the establishment of the National Counselling Service, developments, purpose, ethos, achievements so far, making a difference, learning and priorities for those who have experienced childhood abuse. |
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| 14189 |
IRE52 |
IRE52 |
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| 14190 |
IRE53 |
Sworn to Silence |
Brendan Boland, Ebury Press, 2014 |
A memoir of Brendan's life as an altar boy in Dundalk in Ireland. Brendan traces the grooming and abuse he experienced by Father Smyth. |
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| 14191 |
IRE54 |
Beyond Belief – Abused by his priest, betrayed by his church, the story of the boy who sued the pope |
Colm O'Gorman, Hodder & Stoughton, first published in 2009 & paperback 2010 |
The story of one man's fight for justice against the Catholic Church after he was abused by Catholic priest Father Sean Fortune. |
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| 14192 |
IRE55 |
Little Drifters – Kathleen’s Story – A devastating account of a childhood |
Kathleen O'Shea & Katy Weitz, Harper Element, 2014 |
Based in Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s, Kathleen's story is one of extreme hardship and suffering. It is the tale of 11 siblings, abandoned by their mother and torn from their father, incarcerated in convents and then driven apart in the cruellest ways imaginable. But more than that, it is a tale of courage, survival and incredible strength against overwhelming adversities. |
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| 14193 |
IRE56 |
Secret Child |
Gordon Lewis & Andrew Crofts, Harper Element, 2015 |
The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin. |
|
| 14194 |
IRE57 |
The Irish in Australia |
Patrick O'Farrell, New South Wales University Press, 1987 |
A detailed history of the Irish in Australia and their contributions irrespective of class, religion and state of origin. |
|
| 14195 |
IRE58 |
Heritage |
Alfie O'Mahony, INSPIRE.ie Production, 2018 |
Heritage is a history book containing a series of essays on some of the events and characters in history that interested the author, Alfie. Alfie was placed into an orphanage in Kilkenny where he was a resident for 10 years from 1933 to 1941. Alfie was 10 years of age when he was sent to Baltimore Industrial School. In 2006 Alfie published Reminiscences of life in Baltimore Industrial School, a series of essays. |
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| ID |
Code |
Title |
Author |
Description |
Home(s) |
| 14196 |
NZ1 |
Discipline and Punishment in New Zealand |
James & Dominique Marshall, Dunmore Press, 1997 |
A monograph on discipline and punishment in education and schooling in New Zealand. |
- |
| 14197 |
NZ2 |
Don’t Look Back – The David Bassau Story: How an Abandoned Child Became a Champion of the Poor |
Philippa Tyndale, Allen & Unwin, 2004 |
This rags-to-riches biography tells the story of David Bassau, once an orphan, now a millionaire businessman and founder of Opportunity International, one of the world's largest aid organisations. How an abandoned child became a champion of the poor. |
Anglican Boys' Home New Zealand |
| 14198 |
NZ3 |
Family Matters |
Bronwyn Dalley |
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| 14199 |
NZ4 |
Hand Me Down: The True Story of an Illegitimate Child |
Leigh Bonheur, Ure Smith, 1971 |
The autobiography of an illegitimate child. |
Adoption |
| 14200 |
NZ5 |
Let Me Tell You – Mending a Broken Childhood |
Anthony McCabe, Reed Books, 1998 |
A powerful story of a childhood destroyed by sexual abuse. Anthony portrays a disturbing picture of growing up in Christchurch during the 1930s. |
Foster Care |
| 14201 |
NZ6 |
Never Let Go |
Pat Rafter, A.H. & A. W. Reed Ltd, 1972 |
The remarkable story of Mother Suzanne Aubert, a pioneer in Maori education and social services. The book is also an important study of New Zealand history and sociology of education. |
Timaru Home of Compassion, Loreto Home Wagga Wagga Australia |
| 14202 |
NZ7 |
Only an Orphan |
Peggy Crawford, MJC Publishing, 1995 |
First-hand accounts of life in Children's Institutions in New Zealand. |
St Hilda's Orphanage Otane, Anglican Boys' Home, Salvation Army Home, Masterton, Brett Home & more |
| 14203 |
NZ8 |
Reference Guides -Orphanages and Children’s Homes in Otago and Southland |
University of Otago, Hocken Collections |
General information and details of Hospital and Charitable Aid Board Homes, Government Institutions, Anglican Homes, Catholic Homes, Presbyterian Homes and Salvation Army Homes. |
Otago Benevolent Institution, Bowmont Street Home, Lorne Farm, Industrial School Caversham, Dunedin Boys' Home, Elliot Street Home, Dunedin Family Home, Otekaike Rest Home, St Mary's Orphanage, Anglican Memorial Home for Boys, Children's Rest Home, St Vincent de Paul Orphanage for Girls, St Joseph's Boys' Home, Presbyterian Orphanage and Children's Home, Presbyterian Boys' Home, Glendining Home, Nisbet Home, Marama House, Victoria Memorial Home, Cameron Home, Gladstone Home, Allison Home, Inglenook Home, Sutherland Home, Tweed Street Boys' Home, Highfield Home, Girls' Home Middlemarch, Anderson's Bay Orphanage and Day school and Young Women's Industrial Home |
| 14204 |
NZ9 |
State Ward |
Alan Duff, Random House New Zealand, 1994 |
A fictional moving, powerful novel about facing your crimes, about freedom and about redemption, from the renowned author of Once Were Warriors. Charlie Wilson is sent to Riverton Boys' Home as a state ward. |
Riverton Boys' Home |
| 14205 |
NZ10 |
The Magician’s Son – A Search for Identity |
Sandy McCutcheon, Viking, 2005 |
The story of a boy who was taken from his family and told they'd never existed. |
Adoption |
| 14206 |
NZ11 |
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? |
Alan Duff, Random House Australia or Vintage, 1996 |
A fiction book made into a film. It is six years since Jake's daughter Grace hanged herself. His wife left him, and his son was killed in a gangland fight. His only consolations are drink and his memories. His daughter Polly is determined to escape the violence that is destroying the Maoris. But can Jake redeem himself too? The passionate and uncompromising sequel to Once Were Warriors. |
- |
| 14207 |
NZ12 |
Say Sorry – A Harrowing Childhood in Two Catholic Orphanages |
Ann Thompson with Fiona Craig, Penguin Books, 2009 |
Say Sorry documents the abuse inflicted on Ann after she was placed in a Catholic Orphanage in Christchurch at just two months old and the ongoing consequences in her life after institutionalisation. |
Nazareth House |
| 14208 |
NZ13 |
A Family from Barra: An Adoption Story |
Beryl Martin, Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, 1997 |
Beryl Martin learned in her 50s that she had been adopted and set out to reclaim her history, finding family in Barra, an island in the Hebrides. |
Adoption |
| 14209 |
NZ14 |
Stolen Lives |
Netta England, Hamilton New Zealand, 2014 |
A New Zealand foster child's story from the 1940s and 1950s. Based on the true accounts of Netta England's life. Stolen Lives is the record of Netta's journey from a neglected and abused state ward, to a woman who discovers her heritage and creates a positive life regardless of her upbringing. |
Foster Care |
| 14210 |
NZ15 |
Minnie Dean – Her Life & Crimes |
Lynley Hood, Penguin Books, 1994 |
Minnie Dean was the New Zealand's most famous childcare worker. The book raises disturbing questions. Was Minnie Dean guilty as charged? |
- |
| 14211 |
NZ16 |
The Story of Dingwall |
Published by The Dingwall Presbyterian Orphanage Trust Board |
A booklet on the background of the founder David McNair Dingwall. |
Dingwall Presbyterian Orphanage |
| 14212 |
NZ17 |
Charitable Aid & Social Welfare Records |
Archives of New Zealand, Christchurch Regional Office |
Archives that document government administered charitable aid and social welfare in Canterbury and Westland areas. Includes brief histories and lists of associated records. |
Armagh Street Depot, Burnham Industrial School, Canterbury Orphanage, Selwyn House, Christchurch Orphan Asylum & more |
| 14213 |
NZ18 |
The Road to Hell – State Violence Against Children in Postwar New Zealand |
Elizabeth Stanley, Auckland University Press, 2016 |
The book explores the story of 105 New Zealand children taken from experiences of strife, neglect, poverty or family violence from the 1950s to the 1980s and placed under state care in residential facilities. |
Epuni, Kingslea, Kohitere & Allendale |
| 14214 |
NZ19 |
Social Welfare Residential Care – Volume III A selection of Boys’ and Girls’ Homes 1950-1994 |
Ministry of Social Development |
This Volume details the physical description of each of the Homes, resident profiles, length of stay, work and training, health, staffing, schooling, absconding, secure care, discipline, physical punishment, drugs & alcohol & smoking, contact with field social workers, visiting committee, contact with families, prep for discharge. |
Owairaka Boys' Home, Wesleydale Boys' Home, Hamilton Boys' Home, Epuni Boys' Home, Christchurch Boys' Home, Dunedin Boys' Home, Allendale Girls' Home & Miramar Girls' Home |
| 14215 |
NZ20 |
1900 New Zealand Stoke Industrial School, Nelson – Report of Royal Commission on, together with Correspondence, Evidence and Appendix |
Commissioners appointed by the Governor, 1900 |
Report on the St Mary's Industrial School for Boys at Stoke together with the evidence and appendix. |
St Mary's Industrial School at Stoke |
| 14216 |
NZ21 |
Little Criminals – The Story of a New Zealand Boys’ Home |
David Cohen, Random House New Zealand, 2011 |
Cohen was one of the 100,000 children and young people who passed through the residential system before it was wound down in the 1980s. His engrossing book revisits Epuni, one of the most controversial of the homes, tracking down former residents, staff members, policy-makers and classified documents. He sets his insider account against the wider culture of the period, including the episodic moral panics that led to Epuni's establishment, the ideology that sustained it, and the racial back-story that explode in the national consciousness many years too late. |
Epuni Boys' Home |
| ID |
Code |
Title |
Author |
Description |
Home(s) |
| 14225 |
ENG1 |
Barnardo – The Extraordinary Doctor |
Gladys Williams, Macmillan, 1966 |
The book depicts the life of Dr. Barnardo the man behind the famous Homes. |
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| 14226 |
ENG2 |
Desperate Hearts |
Katherine Summers, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005 |
Tells the story of Katherine Summers and her three sisters growing up in London's East End in the 1960s. Times are tough and she and her sisters are placed in St Joseph's institution (The Towers London). |
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| 14227 |
ENG3 |
Dr Barnardo – The Foster-Father of Nobody’s Children |
Rev. John Herridge Batt, S.W. Patridge & Co., 1904 |
A book detailing the work of Dr. Barnardo's Homes and villages. |
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| 14228 |
ENG4 |
For the Sake of The Children |
June Rose, Futura Book, 1987 |
Inside Barnardos: 120 years of caring for children. |
|
| 14229 |
ENG5 |
Forgotten |
Les Cummings with Jeff Hudson, Pan Books, 2008 |
A memoir about survival of a harrowing childhood in a children's home and being placed with foster parents. |
|
| 14230 |
ENG6 |
ENG6 |
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| 14231 |
ENG7 |
Not Without You |
Alan & Irene Brogan, Hodder & Stoughton, 2009 |
A tale of love and loss. Irene and Alan met in Rennie Road children's home when he was seven and she was nine. Irene was sent to Burdon Hall and Alan to Ashbrooke Towers. Despite being forcibly parted their bond was never broken. This is a story that demonstrates the ultimate truth: that love can surmount all odds. |
|
| 14232 |
ENG8 |
Who Cares? |
Fred Fever, Warner Books, 1994 |
Memories of a childhood in Barnardo's. |
|
| 14233 |
ENG9 |
Borstal Boy |
Brendan Behan, Hutchinson of London, 1958 |
Autobiographical book by Brendan Behan who was placed in a Borstal (Youth Detention Centre). |
|
| 14234 |
ENG10 |
Nobody’s Girl |
Kitty Neale, Avon, 2007 |
A fiction of a young girl abandoned on the steps of an orphanage, released at age sixteen and gets tangled up in the South London underworld. |
|
| 14235 |
ENG11 |
Pin Down |
Teresa Cooper, Orion Books, 2007 |
One girl's harrowing and disturbing tale of institutionalised abuse in Kendall House in Kent. |
|
| 14236 |
ENG12 |
Nobody Came |
Robbie Garner with Toni Maguire, Harper Element, 2008 |
The appalling true story of brothers cruelly abused in Sacre Coeur Jersey Care Home. |
|
| 14237 |
ENG13 |
Forgotten Children – The Secret Abuse Scandal in Children’s Homes |
Christian Wolmar, Vision Paperbacks, 2000 |
This book contains a history of children's homes, interviews with victims, care workers, lawyers and police presenting a critique of children's care in 1970s and 1980s. |
|
| 14238 |
ENG14 |
ENG14 |
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| 14239 |
ENG15 |
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |
Alan Sillitoe, Flamingo, 1959 |
A novel made into a film starring Tom Courtenay and Michael Redgrave. A modern classic about integrity, courage and bucking the system. It recounts the story of a reform school cross-country runner who seizes the perfect opportunity to defy authority that governs his life. |
|
| 14240 |
ENG16 |
Ex Home Boy’s Memoirs – Fahan Termonbacca and Nazareth House 1892-1982 |
Brian Doherty |
A book based on Brian Doherty's fourteen years spent in various Homes. Includes photographs of children in Homes throughout the years. |
|
| 14241 |
ENG17 |
Barnardo of Stepney – The Father of Nobody’s Children |
AE Williams, George Allen & Unwin Ltd |
The adventures of Dr. Barnardo in letters provide for a vivid and realistic picture of Dr. Barnardo. |
|
| 14242 |
ENG18 |
A Place of Safety |
Angela Burdick, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1988 |
A simple story of a young girl's childhood and adolescence in a residential children's Home. |
|
| 14243 |
ENG19 |
Neither Waif Nor Stray |
Perry Snow |
|
|
| 14244 |
ENG20 |
The Unprivileged |
Jeremy Seabrook, Longmans Green, 1967 |
A moving social document that mirrors the life and traditions of Blackburn over five generations. |
|
| 14245 |
ENG21 |
New Orphan Houses Ashley Down, Bristol |
Wikipedia |
The expansion, daily routine, education, developments, the war years and post war years of the New Orphan Houses also known as Muller Houses in the district of Ashley Down, Northern Bristol. |
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| 14246 |
ENG22 |
Extract from the book – The Bristol Orphan Houses |
W Elfe Taylor, The George Müller Charitable Trust |
The Chapter XIV - A visit to the New Orphan Houses from The Bristol Orphan Houses book. |
|
| 14247 |
ENG23 |
The Bristol Miracle – An account of God’s faithfulness to the work of George Müller |
The George Müller Charitable Trust |
A short booklet on the life, faith and orphan homes opened by George Müller. |
|
| 14248 |
ENG24 |
Alone on a Wide Wide Sea |
Michael Morpurgo, Harper Collins Publishers, 2006 |
A children's fiction book about an English orphan Arthur Hobhouse, shipped as a child migrant to Australia. |
|
| 14249 |
ENG25 |
London’s Forgotten Children – Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital |
Gillian Pugh with foreword by Kate Adie, Tempus, 2007 |
A book on the history of the Foundling Hospital from its conception. |
|
| 14250 |
ENG26 |
Unloved – The True Story of a Stolen Childhood |
Peter Roche, Penguin Books, 2007 |
This story begins and ends with a photograph taken when I was two years old. Finding it was like discovering that I really did exist after all. It was as if someone was saying 'No, it wasn't all in your imagination, that childhood really did happen, and it happened to you.' Brought up in South London by violent and abusive parents, the Roche children knew only cruelty, neglect, starvation and squalor. As one of ten and regularly beaten, Peter searched dustbins for food and slept rough when he couldn't face going home. It was survival at all costs, every child for itself. Expelled from school at the age of 14, Peter's life of petty crime landed him in borstal - and exposed him to yet more sickening abuse. Then, years later, a chance meeting with a social worker led to his discovery of a photograph - a portrait, taken by Lord Snowdon, of a toddler dressed in rags. It was an image that had shocked the world. The boy in the picture was Peter. Unloved is a harrowing account of a shattered childhood, told by a man who has finally found the courage to speak out. This is his story. |
|
| 14251 |
ENG27 |
Strawberry Fields |
Katie Flynn, arrow books, 1998 |
A novel on secrets, a Salvation Army Children's Home and a story of when two girls meet. |
|
| 14252 |
ENG28 |
Helpless: The true story of a neglected girl betrayed and exploited by the neighbour she trusted |
Marianne Marsh with Toni Maguire, Harper Element, 2009 |
Neglected by her parents and the eldest of five children Marianne sought the affection she craved by her neighbour who seeing the vulnerable child knew she was easy prey for his perverted desires. At thirteen she fell pregnant and gave birth to a daughter in the unmarried mother's home. |
|
| 14253 |
ENG29 |
Escaping Daddy |
Maria Landon with Andrew Crofts, Harper Element, 2009 |
The sequel to Daddy's Little Earner tells the story as she tries to rebuild her life after her father forced Maria, his daughter, into child prostitution. Maria tells the story of her marriage into the gypsy community and the emotional demons that rise up from her childhood to haunt her as she becomes a victim of violence once more. |
|
| 14254 |
ENG30 |
Frank Norman – Banana Boy |
Frank Norman, London Secker & Warburg, 1969 |
A childhood autobiography details how at age three being placed in the care of the Church of England Adoption Society and then spent nine years in Dr. Barnardo's Homes. |
|
| 14255 |
ENG31 |
Antonia |
Naomi Jacob, The Book Club, 1954 |
The story of an Italian girl, in the time of Mussolini. "Obey believe fight" these are the words with which Benito Mussolini rallied his supporters, but to little Antonia they have a different special significance. The story of how Antonia raised out of poverty to find a life of love and heartache, and how she through strength of character makes something splendid of her life. |
|
| 14256 |
ENG32 |
Crack House – The incredible true story of the man who took on London’s crack gangs & won |
Harry Keeble with Kris Hollington, Simon & Schuster, 2010 |
Crack House describes how Haringey Drugs Squad shut down all 100 crack houses in their borough in heart-stopping fashion a series of raids, arrests, beatings, stabbings and shootings. The book takes the reader into the dark heart of our cities' most violent and terrifying places, showing how the war on drugs can only be won by constant and forceful vigilance. |
|
| 14257 |
ENG33 |
Rock Me Gently: A Memoir of a Convent Childhood |
Judith Kelly, Bloomsbury, 2005 |
A harrowing and moving memoir of a convent childhood in the 1950s and coming to terms with the past. After her father's death, Judith Kelly was left in the care of the nuns at a Catholic orphanage while her mother searched for a place for them to live. She was eight years old. Judith found herself in a savage and terrifying institution where physical, emotional and sexual abuse was the daily norm and the children's lives were reduced to stark survival. |
|
| 14258 |
ENG34 |
Flowers in the Attic |
Virginia Andrews, Harper Collins, 2011 |
A fictional tale of a family's loss, abandonment, betrayal and love. |
|
| 14259 |
ENG35 |
Someone to Watch Over Me: The True Tale of a Survivor Haunted by the Demons of Abuse |
Izzy Hamond with Robert Potter, Mainstream Publishing, 2007 |
Izzy Hammond's deaf and partially blind parents attracted sympathy from the outside world, but no one knew of the horrific abuse their daughter was subjected to inside the family home. In this memoir Izzy reveals her vicious childhood abuse she suffered at the hands of her father and then by subsequent predators. Finally able to break the cycle, she has at last reclaimed a life free from the demons that have haunted her for so long. |
|
| 14260 |
ENG36 |
The Brotherhood |
Stephen Knight, first published by Granada Publishing 1983 & Panther Books, 1985 |
The explosive exposé of the secret world of the Freemasons. |
|
| 14261 |
ENG37 |
Naked: A vulnerable child trapped in a predatory world |
Jo Hill, Headline Review, 2008 |
With a volatile father and an alcoholic mother, ten-year-old Jo was a desperately unhappy child. Her father became obsessed with going to nudist camps. Forced to show her bare body in front of total strangers, Jo suffered at the hands of men who were at the camps to prey on young, naked girls. |
|
| 14262 |
ENG38 |
My Story – A Child Called ‘It’ – The lost boy – A man named Dave |
Dave Pelzer, Orion Books, 2004 |
The story of Dave's journey from childhood when he lived in terror of his unstable, violently unpredictable mother, to his emergence as an inspiration. |
|
| 14263 |
ENG39 |
ENG39 |
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| 14264 |
ENG40 |
Nobody’s Child |
Michael Seed with Noel Botham, John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2008 |
A harrowing childhood memoir of Michael Seed's childhood experience of starvation, torture, forced to become a sex slave to his father at the age of five, and, after his mother's horrific suicide, fell victim to constant and terrible bullying at school. |
|
| 14265 |
ENG41 |
Cry Silent Tears – The Horrific True Story of the Mute Little Boy in the Cellar |
Joe Peters with Andrew Crofts, Harper Element, 2008 |
This book is the heart-warming true story of how an abused little boy overcame impossible odds and grew into a remarkable man. |
|
| 14266 |
ENG42 |
Nobody’s Child |
Kate Adie, Hodder & Stoughton, 2006 |
This book uncovers the extraordinary, moving yet often uplifting stories of foundlings without parents, an identity, or even a name to call their own. |
|
| 14267 |
ENG43 |
Going Back |
Frederick Brayshaw & Wendy Grant, Eastbrook Publishing, 1992 |
A detailed account of Frederick's life in children's homes, with adoptive parents and an Industrial School. |
|
| 14268 |
ENG44 |
Fifty One Moves |
Ben Ashcroft, Waterside Press, 2013 |
Ben Ashcroft's heart-rending account of abandonment, loneliness, and rejection in family life, the care system and beyond. Life begins at age nine and ends with him turning his life around. Now he motivates young people from similar backgrounds. |
|
| 14269 |
ENG45 |
Rebel Without Applause |
Lemm Sissay, Canongate, 2000 |
A short book of poetry. |
|
| 14270 |
ENG46 |
Gold from the Stone |
Lemm Sissay, Canongate, 2017 |
A book of poetry. |
|
| 14271 |
ENG47 |
Children’s Homes – A History of Institutional Care for Britain’s Young |
Peter Higginbotham, Pen & Sword, 2017 |
A book detailing the various Homes in England as well as life in the Homes. |
|
| 14272 |
ENG48 |
The Victorian Workhouse |
Trevor May, Shire Publications, 2002 |
A short booklet on the 19th Century workhouses in Britain. This booklet looks at the principles that lay behind the New Poor Law of 1834, at the design and construction of workhouses, and at the lives of those entered them, either as officers or as paupers. |
|
| 14273 |
ENG49 |
Boy Number 26 |
Tommy Rhattigan, Mirror Books, 2019 |
This book looks back to Tommy's childhood when we he entered care in 1964 at seven years old. Tommy recalls his institutionalised childhood in a humorous way. |
|
| 14274 |
ENG50 |
Who Decides? – A Journey out of the Shadows |
June Elizabeth Storer, BWM Books Pty Ltd, 2012 |
A coming of age story of a young girl whose mother tragically dies of tuberculosis. The uncertainty of the war years. The hateful treatment of her sadistic stepmother. |
|
| 14275 |
ENG51 |
Annie’s Legacy |
Ken McCoy, Piatkus Books Ltd, 2011 |
A novel on a young girl's life in a children's home. |
|
| 14276 |
ENG52 |
Not Alone |
Jenny Tomlin, Hodder & Stoughton, 2007 |
A book told with honesty and emotion of stories of child abuse. A story of hope and survival. |
|
| 14277 |
ENG53 |
Shadows of the Workhouse |
Jennifer Worth, Merton Books, 2005 |
A non-fiction memoir of life in the workhouses of London's East end. |
|
| 14278 |
ENG54 |
A Child Called ‘It’ – One child’s courage to survive |
Dave Pelzer, Orion Media, 2000 |
A true story of a boy who was badly beaten and starved by his emotionally abusive Mother. |
|
| 14279 |
ENG55 |
Worthless: The inspirational story of one woman’s triumph over tragedy |
Marilyn Hardy, Virgin Books, 2008 |
A memoir of an impoverished childhood in Stanley in the UK a former mining town. It is a compelling memoir and poignant evocation of life in a bygone era. The book is an inspirational story of hope and strength that can come with true love. |
|
| 14280 |
ENG56 |
My Story – A Child Called ‘It’ – The Lost Boy – A Man Named Dave |
Dave Pelzer, Orion Books, 2000 & 2001 |
Contains three volumes of Dave Pelzer's remarkable journey from childhood, to his teenage years and through to adulthood. |
|
| 14281 |
ENG57 |
Report of the Care of Children Committee |
Presented by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Minister of Health and Education to Parliament, September 1946 |
Inquiry into existing methods of providing for children who from loss of parents or from any cause whatever and to consider what further measures should be taken to ensure that these children are brought up under condition best calculated to compensate them for the lack of parental care. |
|
| 14282 |
ENG58 |
On Special Service – Incorporating Homes and Parents |
The Magazine of the Children's Special Service Mission & Scripture Union, Vol. 40 No. 6, November/December 1960 |
An advertised position for an Assistant Matron for a well-equipped children's home at the end of the magazine. |
|
| 14283 |
ENG59 |
Mother’s Ruin – The extraordinary true story of how alcohol destroys a family |
Nicola Barry, Headline Review, 2007 |
Nicola Barry grew up in a well-to-do family alcohol destroyed a family. And of how Nicola battled with her own alcoholism but determined to throw off her mother's legacy, came through a survivor. |
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| 14284 |
ENG60 |
The Golly in the Cupboard |
Phil Frampton, foreword by Tony Benn, Tamic Publications, 2004 |
A powerful book about what happens when a child is denied love. Son of a Nigerian man and an English woman, Phil was sent to Barnardo's Homes and had a short period with foster parents. This book details his search to find his birth parents. |
|
| 14285 |
ENG61 |
Graduating from the child welfare system – An overview of the UK leaving care debate |
Philip Mendes & Badal Moslehuddin, Youth Studies Australia, Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2003 |
Peer reviewed paper on the UK debate around improving outcomes for care leavers. Attention is drawn to legislative and program reforms, including the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 with some Australian leaving care practice considered. |
|
| 14286 |
ENG62 |
Social Evils The Army Has Challenged |
S. Carvosso Gauntlett, Salvationist Publishing and Supplies, 1946 |
Chapter VI titled 'The Abandoned Child'. |
|
| 14287 |
ENG63 |
Papers on Residential Work – Children in Care |
Edited by Robert J N Tod, Longmans, Green and Co, First published 1968 & Second impression 1969 |
Three chapters of a book that contains articles on residential childcare and treatment, which have, in most cases, appeared in English and American journals during the last ten years. 1. The importance to a child of his family by E. Mary Mason. 2. Reception into care - it's meaning for all concerned by Olive Stevenson. 3. The consequences of separation by Gordon Trasler. |
|
| 14288 |
ENG64 |
Runaway – Wild Child, Working Girl, Survivor |
Emily MacKenzie & Clifford Thurlow, Simon & Schuster, 2013 |
Adopted at birth in 1956 by middle-class family, Emily shared a golden childhood with her adopted sister Amy, attending private schools, and enjoying singing and dancing lessons. Things soon changed when Emily's jealous mother came to regard her as a rival. A bored and restless woman, she beat Emily for the first time when was seven years old and from then on seemed to become addicted to inflicting pain on her daughter. Despite Emily's father's attempts to protect her, the parental rows grew more malicious, until the mother moved out and remarried a narcissist widower with alcohol problems and a vicious, bullying temper. The abuse intensified until Emily was placed into voluntary care. And so began a toxic spiral of remand homes, psychiatric hospitals, and sleeping rough. It wasn't long before Emily became a teenage 'working girl', where was paid to engage in bizarre sadomasochistic acts for perverted clients, including a senior judge and a policeman. It was only when she was almost murdered that she turned her life around. Set principally between 1966-1972. Runaway captures the sleazy Soho of the period and the frightening conditions in which many children were kept in care. |
|
| 14289 |
ENG65 |
The Convent – ‘This shame is no longer mine’ – A shocking true story of surviving an evil nun’s care home from hell |
Marie Hargreaves with Ann & Joe Cusack, Mirror Books, 2020 |
The Sunday Times Bestseller and memoir of Marie's time in a convent where a nun physically, mentally and sexually abused her. |
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| ID |
Code |
Title |
Author |
Description |
Home(s) |
| 14323 |
USA1 |
USA1 |
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| 14324 |
USA2 |
Borrowed Finery |
Paula Fox, Flamingo An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2001 |
A memoir detailing Paula Fox being placed in a Manhattan Orphanage a few days after birth. Rescued by her Grandmother, she was passed from one place to another. |
|
| 14325 |
USA3 |
Children of Hope |
Elsie E. Vignec, Readers Digest Association Pty Ltd & Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1966 |
A chapter in a Readers Digest Condensed Book of 1966 recounts Elsie Vignec's experience of volunteering her services at the New York Foundling Hospital. |
|
| 14326 |
USA4 |
Girlbomb – A Halfway Homeless Memoir |
Janice Erlbaum, Villard Books & Bantam, 2006 |
The compelling story of a teenage runaway who survived underage sex, drugs and homelessness to get sober to go to college and turn her life around. |
|
| 14327 |
USA5 |
The Home – A memoir of growing up in an Orphanage |
Richard McKenzie, Basic Books a division of Harper Collins Publishers, 1996 |
A memoir of Richard's time in The Home with orphans but mostly victims of poverty and abandonment. The Home provided them with a shelter that their own families could not. |
|
| 14328 |
USA6 |
Life is so good |
George Dawson & Richard Glaubman, Harper Collins Publishers, 2000 |
A memoir of George Dawson's life. |
|
| 14329 |
USA7 |
“Mommie Whats an Orphan?” – Stories of what life is like for kids growing up in an orphanage |
Harry Edward Hicks, Koinonia Press, 1993 |
The author entered the Oklahoma Methodist Home for orphans at age six and remained at the Home until he graduated high school. The book takes the reader on a journey in the daily life in the orphanage. |
|
| 14330 |
USA8 |
In the Belly of the Beast – Letters from Prison |
Jack Henry Abbott, Random House, 1981 |
Letters written with clarity, vividness and ferocity by Jack Abbott. Jack was raised in foster homes and ended up in Utah State Industrial School for Boys. |
|
| 14331 |
USA9 |
Nobody’s Child – A Courageous Story of Hope and Healing |
Marie Balter & Richard Katz, Merloyd Lawrence Book, 1991 |
This vivid account of Marie Balter's mental illness. Her story is an extraordinary example of her return to health from a seemingly hopeless state of permanent mental illness. |
|
| 14332 |
USA10 |
Orphan – A True Story of Abandonment, Abuse and Redemption |
Roger Dean Kiser, Sr. Adams Media Corporation, 2001 |
Kiser's recollections of his painful childhood abandoned by his parents, then his grandparents and placed into a Florida orphanage. |
|
| 14333 |
USA11 |
Sleepers – A True Story When Friendship Runs Deeper Than Blood |
Lorenzo Carcaterra, Century, 1995 |
An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty and revenge. Four boys who shared everything until one prank went awry, a man nearly died and they were sent away to a reformatory school subsequently, a year of rape, torture and abuse followed. |
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| 14334 |
USA12 |
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother |
James McBride, Sceptre, 1996 |
A memoir on growing up, a mediation on race and identity and a poignant, beautifully crafted hymn from a son to his mother. |
|
| 14335 |
USA13 |
They Cage The Animals At Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child’s Struggle for Emotional Survival |
Jennings Michael Burch, A Signet Book, 1984 |
Burch was left at an orphanage and never stayed at any one foster home long enough to make any friends. This is the story of how he grew up and gained the courage to reach out for love. |
|
| 14336 |
USA14 |
The Jury is Still Out |
Irwin Davidson & Richard Gehman, A Panther Book, 1959 |
A fifteen-year old polio victim is stabbed, beaten and kicked to death. The presiding Judge of the case tells the inside story of this unprecedented murder trial and reconstructs the shocking crime which precipitated it. |
|
| 14337 |
USA15 |
Why She Left Us |
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Flamingo, 1999 |
A novel of uncommon emotional power of three generations of a Japanese-American family. The book revolves around a Japanese-American woman's abandonment of her illegitimate child during WWII. |
|
| 14338 |
USA16 |
Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood |
Julia Scully, Souvenir Press, 1998 |
When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska, where she had leased a roadhouse in the tiny settlement of Taylor. Julia had no idea what to expect when she arrived, but to her surprise, she found a healing power in the stark beauty of the vast tundra. Later, she revelled in the boisterous, chaotic boomtown atmosphere that prevailed when thousands of American troops descended on Nome at the outbreak of World War II. |
|
| 14339 |
USA17 |
Not The Thing I Was: Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim’s Orthogenic School |
Stephen Eliot, St Martin's Press, 2002 |
A charming memoir of Stephen Eliot's time in Bruno Bettelheim Orthogenic School. Sent at age eight to Bruno Bettelheim's School among autistics and schizophrenics, Eliot found himself in a world without drugs or locks on the doors. |
|
| 14340 |
USA18 |
Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans |
Louis Armstrong, The Harborough Publishing & first published by Peter Davies Limited, The Windmill Press, 1955 |
The King of jazz retells his story coming up the hard way from the slums of his childhood, his experience in the Waif's Home to the time he left the fabulous Mississippi city heading out trumpeting for Chicago. |
|
| 14341 |
USA19 |
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements |
Malcolm X & George Breitman, Grove Press New York, 1994 |
These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his life. In this short period of time, his vision for abolishing racial inequality in the United States underwent a vast transformation. Breaking from the Black Muslims, he moved away from the black militarism prevalent in his earlier years only to be shot down by an assassin's bullet. |
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| 14342 |
USA20 |
Louis Armstrong and the Jazz Age |
Dan Elish, Children's Press, 2005 |
Presents the life and accomplishments of the famous jazz musician known for his cornet playing. A book on the American legacy that has been passed on from one generation to the next. An exceptional and indispensable social studies resource for young readers. |
|
| 14343 |
USA21 |
A Boy from C-11 Case # 9164 |
A memoir by Harvey Ronglien, Graham Megyeri Books, 2006 |
A memoir that takes the readers into the world of American orphanages that no longer exist. This is an honest, heart wrenching account of one boy's struggles to overcome his difficult childhood. |
|
| 14344 |
USA22 |
Crackers and Milk |
Arlene Nelson & Char Valters (Editor), Graham Megyeri Books, 2006 |
Arlene retells her mother's amazing story of unusually tarnished childhood. The eldest of five children growing up in the early 20th Century in the rural Midwest. Her and her siblings attempt to survive illness, abandonment, abuse, neglect, hunger, institutionalisation and loss. |
|
| 14345 |
USA23 |
While the Locust Slept – A Memoir |
Peter Razor, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001 |
First time author Peter Razor chronicles his survival of abuse and bigotry at a state orphanage in the 1930s and the brutal farm indenture that followed. |
|
| 14346 |
USA24 |
In God’s House: A Novel About One Of The Great Scandals of Our Time |
Ray Mouton, Head of Zeus, 2012 |
Is a story of one man's crusade to bring justice to the victims of child abuse. It's a journey through the dark corridors of the oldest, richest, most powerful religious institutions on earth: the Roman Catholic Church. |
|
| 14347 |
USA25 |
Happy Baby |
Stephen Elliot, McSweeney's Books, 2005 |
A novel told in reverse order, Happy Baby is an edgy and powerful novel about an orphan in foster care. |
|
| 14348 |
USA26 |
The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir |
Victoria Rowell, William Morrow, 2007 |
Made a Ward of the State of Maine after she was born, in her memoir Victoria lovingly remembers the foster parents, teachers, mentors and true friends who made a difference in her life. |
|
| 14349 |
USA27 |
Breakneck |
Erica Spindler, St Martin's Press, 2009 |
This book is by the international bestselling author Erica Spindler who writes about detective partners at the Rockford Violent Crimes Bureau who are working on catching a killer on the loose, someone who is systematically working his way down a seemingly unconnected list of victims. |
|
| 14350 |
USA28 |
USA28 |
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| 14351 |
USA29 |
Myrtle Fillmore – Mother of Unity |
Thomas E. Witherspoon, Unity Books, 1977 |
This is a biography of the dynamic co-founder of the Unity movement and gives a moving account of Myrtle's life as well as a history of the Unity movement. |
|
| 14352 |
USA30 |
If I Knew Then… |
Amy Fisher and Robbie Woliver, Harper Collins Publishers, 2004 |
The woman known as the Long Island Lolita talks about her crime, her life of abuse in prison and starting over. |
|
| 14353 |
USA31 |
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter |
Kim Edwards, Penguin Group, 2005 |
Number One New York Times Bestseller and a brilliantly crafted story of parallel lives, familial secrets and the redemptive power of love. |
|
| 14354 |
USA32 |
Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church: The findings of the investigation that inspired the major motion picture Spotlight |
The Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe, 2015 |
With this exposé, the Boston Globe presents the single most comprehensive account of the cover-ups, hush money and manipulation used by the Catholic Church to keep its history of sexual abuse secret. The findings of the investigation that inspired Spotlight. |
|
| 14355 |
USA33 |
The Help |
Kathryn Stockett, first published by Amy Einhorn Books, Penguin Books, 2009 |
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humour, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't. |
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| ID |
Code |
Title |
Author |
Description |
Home(s) |
| 16389 |
AUS34 |
‘Gross dereliction’: abuse victim awarded record compensation |
Paul Garvey, The Australian, Wednesday 10 September 2025 |
Newspaper article detailing the largest damages payout in Western Australia since WA lifted a statute of limitations on civil claims for compensation for child sexual abuse. Dion Barber sued the state and WA’s Department of Communities. The court finding a ‘gross dereliction of duty’ on their behalf. |
NA |
| 14356 |
AUS1 |
Australia’s Most Murderous Prison – Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail |
James Phelps, An Ebury Press Book, Random House Australia, 2015 |
A book on the murderers, terrorists, serial killers, gangsters and rapists in Goulburn prison. |
NA |
| 14357 |
AUS2 |
No Charity There – A short history of social welfare in Australia |
Brian Dickey, Allen & Unwin, 1987 |
This book provides the first general history of social welfare in Australia. It traces the development of official and community attitudes to demands and expectation. |
Randwick Asylum NSW & The Destitute Asylum, Adelaide South Australia |
| 14358 |
AUS3 |
Australian National Archives Canberra Online references |
Australian National Archives |
A list of homes in Australia, background and histories of homes. Contains state records, reports and inquiries. |
Australian Homes |
| 14359 |
AUS4 |
Children’s Voices from the Past – New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives |
Edited by Kristine Moruzi, Nell Musgrove & Carla Pascoe Leahy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 |
Australian, American, French, Canadian and New Zealand historical experiences of childhood. Chapter 13 titled 'Lost and Found: Counter-Narratives of Dis/Located Children written by Frank Golding & Jacqueline Z. Wilson. |
Brookside Private Girls Reformatory in Ballarat Victoria, Ballarat Orphanage, Victoria |
| 14360 |
AUS5 |
Property Souvenir Australia – A Pictorial Review 1909-1921 |
James Hay Commissioner, The Salvation Army |
A pictorial review of The Salvation Army houses, cottages and properties around Australia. |
Bethesda, Seaforth, Bexley, Bayswater, Box Hill Homes for Boys, Mothers' Hospitals, Aged Men and Women's Retreats |
| 14361 |
AUS6 |
Caring for Forgotten Australians, Former Child Migrants and Stolen Generations |
Australian Government, Department of Health, 2016 |
An information package for aged care services includes case studies and appropriate and sensitive care with key considerations. |
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| 14362 |
AUS7 |
Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee – Review of Government Compensation Payments |
Senate Committee Report, Commonwealth of Australia, December 2010 |
A Report into both state and international redress schemes, recommendations, other government compensation mechanisms and additional comments by the Australian Greens. |
- |
| 14363 |
AUS8 |
On Earth As It Is In Heaven |
Kristin Schneider, Trafford Publishing, 2004 |
A fiction on growing up in Australia post WWII. |
- |
| 14364 |
AUS9 |
Brother P.A Treacy & the Christian Brothers in Australia and New Zealand |
K.K. O'Donoghue, MA, The Polding Press, Melbourne 1983 |
The book details the Christian Brothers successful adaption to Australia and New Zealand. In particular a constant theme throughout the book is the prudence, stability and sagacity that kept Brother Treacy at the helm for thirty-two years. |
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| 14365 |
AUS10 |
Children’s Homes |
Various authors |
Archive searches, personal accounts, general information, newspaper clippings and images of Homes from around Australia. |
Berry St Babies Home Vic, Brisbane Female Refuge, Burwood Boys' Home NSW, Catholic Children's Homes, Dunmore House Boys' Home, Fairbridge Farm, Kincumber Boys' Home NSW, Menzies Boys' Home, Melbourne Orphanage, Murray Vale Girls' Home, Parramatta Girls Home, Sunnylands Children's Home, Queen Alexandra Home, Queensland Girls' Home, Scarba Home, St Joseph's Babies Home, St Francis House & Sydney Legacy House |
| 14366 |
AUS11 |
A Piece of the Story – National Directory of Records of Catholic Organisations Caring for Children Separated from Families |
Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission & Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes, November 1999 |
A book recording names, locations and details of every Catholic institution in each state of Australia. |
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| 14367 |
AUS12 |
Not for Publication |
Chris Masters, ABC Books for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2002 |
Chris Masters draws on his assignments in Australia and overseas to tell some of the stories he couldn't tell on Four Corners. There is a chapter named 'The Children Who Smell' on page 164 that tells the story of a social worker's decision to report an incident that led to the removal of two children from their father's care. |
- |
| 14368 |
AUS13 |
Surviving Care: Achieving justice and healing for the Forgotten Australians |
Various authors, edited by Richard Hill & Elizabeth Branigan, Bond University Press, 2010 |
A book discussing and proposing how to achieve justice for Forgotten Australians. |
- |
| 14369 |
AUS14 |
AUS14 |
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| 14370 |
AUS15 |
The Official Directory of the Catholic Church in Australia 2014-2015 |
National Council of Priests of Australia Inc., 2014 |
A text of the Official Directory of the Catholic Church in Australia. |
- |
| 14371 |
AUS16 |
Salvo! The Salvation Army in the 1990s |
John Cleary, Focus Books, 1993 |
A unique look inside The Salvation Army in Australia in the 1990s. The book looks through the lives of Salvationists. |
- |
| 14372 |
AUS17 |
You Can’t Forget Things Like That |
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs |
A booklet on Forgotten Australians and former Child Migrants an Oral History Project explores interviews by trained historians. Quotes are excerpted from interviews. |
- |
| 14373 |
AUS18 |
No Stars to Wish On |
Zana Fraillon, Allen & Unwin, 2014 |
A work of fiction about the Australian experience of being a ward of the state. |
- |
| 14374 |
AUS19 |
Insane: the stories of crazy salvos who changed the world |
Nealson Munn & David Collinson, The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory, first in 2007 & 2020 |
A book on the history of The Salvation Army's contributors. |
- |
| 14375 |
AUS20 |
That elusive digger – tracing your Australian military ancestors |
Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith, Unlock the Past, 2013 |
A book providing an overview on how to trace your Australian military ancestor and is the first in a series. |
- |
| 14376 |
AUS21 |
Recipes for Survival – Stories of Hope and Healing by Survivors of the State ‘Case’ System in Australia |
Edited by Deidre Michell & Priscilla Taylor, People's Voice Publishing, 2011 |
A series of stories & poems of survivors of an unimaginable childhood. |
Ballarat Orphanage in Victoria, Orana Cottage in Plympton run by the Catholic Church in South Australia & Morialta Protestant Children's Home in South Australia |
| 14377 |
AUS22 |
The Salvation Army – Disposition of Forces 2006 |
The Salvation Army |
A private and confidential book that contains personal information of Salvation Army officers and employees from each Australian state. |
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| 14378 |
AUS23 |
Institutionalised Childhood: The Orphanage Remembered |
Shurlee Swain, Journal of the History of Childhood & Youth, Vol 8, Number 1, published by John Hopkins University Press, 2015 |
An essay on the care leavers' experience of children's homes around Australia. Largely, the essay concludes that the places function as a symbol for the shared experiences from which many care leavers derive their identity. They want those experiences to be remembered and memorialized, resisting attempts to erase the physical traces of institutions of the place, for these were indeed their homes. |
Cootamundra Home NSW, Salvation Army Gill Memorial Home NSW, Parramatta Girls' Home NSW, Melbourne Orphanage Victoria, Goodwood Orphanage run by the Catholic Church South Australia, Kildonan Presbyterian Children's Home in Melbourne & more |
| 14379 |
AUS24 |
AUS24 |
Mary Raftopoulos, La Trobe University, September 2022 |
Summary of findings for a PHD on the impacts on of institutional 'care' on care leavers' children. |
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| 14380 |
AUS25 |
Resources from around Australia |
Various |
A: - Barnardos Editorial Down Under - Dec 2006 - CD Stories from Burnside and newsletter - Book Review - Sex, power and the clergy, an orphan's escape - Catholic Agricultural School - Bindoon - Book cover - Memoirs of a Road Scholar - From the Lilly Pad - 2008 - Connect Issues No. 7 November 2007 - Where are the support services for the White Stolen Generation - poster B: - DHS - updating the guide to out of home care services 1940-2000 - Benchmarking of respondents to Care Leaver survey - Letter - Ombudsman Victoria's Review of the Freedom of Information Unit - Letter - Melbourne City Mission - Oct 2006 - Letter - Resurrection House - AGM - St Augustine's Old Boys - Letter - Archives of the Good Shepherd Sisters - Letter - David Sullivan and associates C: - Guide to Victorian Children's Registers - Presbyterian Synod of Victoria ACT 1859 - CLA Guide to accessing childhood case records - Natural child project resources for caring parents PQ: - University of Newcastle - Archives - Commission of inquiry - SA Children in State Care - Vanish news sheet - Dec 2007 - Australia Social Welfare History Workshop 2010 - Anglican Church of Australia Constitution Act 1960 |
Bindoon Boys' Town in Western Australia & St Augustine's Highton in Victoria |
| 14381 |
AUS26 |
Australian Journal of Social Issues |
Anna Yeatman & Joanna Penglase, Vol. 39, Issue 3, August 2004 |
A chapter named 'Looking after Children: A Case Study of Individualised Service Delivery' found from pages 233-247. |
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| 14382 |
AUS27 |
Why Are They In Children’s Homes – Report of the ACOSS Children’s Home intake Study |
Dallas Hanson, Commonwealth of Australia, 1979 |
A Report to develop an understanding of who the children in care are and why they are there. |
Contains lists of Homes in each state/territory |
| 14383 |
AUS28 |
After the Silence – Media Reporting of child sexual abuse in the wake of the Royal Commission |
University of Canberra, 2022 |
This report provides research on the role of journalism and social media advocacy in triggering, reporting on, and keeping alive the recommendations of the ground-breaking Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-2017). X 2 copies. |
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| 14384 |
AUS29 |
National Memorial for Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Information Paper |
Australian Government, Department of Social Services, 2020 |
An information paper on possible National Memorial due to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse recommendation for a National Memorial to be located in Canberra. |
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| 14385 |
AUS30 |
The Book of Remembrance 1939-1945 |
The Methodist Church of Australasia |
Names of men who gave their lives of the Victorian and Tasmanian Conference. |
- |
| 14386 |
AUS31 |
Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Murder, A Conspiracy of Silence and A Search for Justice |
Christine Kenneally, Hachette Australia, 2023 |
A book by award winning journalist Christine Kenneally who writes on the dark and secret history of Catholic orphanages - the violence, abuse and even murder that took place within their walls. |
St Augustine's Orphanage in Vic, Bayswater in Vic, Ballarat Orphanage in Vic, Nazareth House in Geraldton WA, Tardun in WA & Royleston Boys' Home in NSW |
| 14387 |
AUS32 |
My Father’s War |
Sophie Masson, Scholastic, 2015 |
Annie's dad has been away for two years, fighting on the Somme battlefields in northern France. For months there has been no word from him, no letters or postcards. Annie and her mother are sick with worry, so they decide to stop waiting and instead travelled to France, to find out what has happened to him. There she experiences first-hand what war is like, as she tries to piece together the clues behind her dad's disappearance. Will Annie ever see her father again? |
Unclear |
| 14388 |
AUS33 |
Convent Slave Laundries? Magdelen Asylums in Australia |
James Franklin, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 2013 |
Expect this article to present the argument for and against whether the convent laundry system in Australia was convent slave laundries. |
Sisters of the Good Shepherd - Abbotsford Convent Melbourne, the Home of the Good Shepherd Ashfield in Sydney, the Good Shepherd Convent Mitchelton in Brisbane, Mount Saint Canice Sandy Bay in Hobart, 'The Pines' North Plympton in Adelaide, the Home of the Good Shepherd Leederville in Perth, St Aidan's Bendigo in Victoria, Good Samaritans in Sydney and Manly, St Magdelen's in Tempe & St Joseph's Adelaide, SA |
