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 j

This is the story of Britain's child migrants, some 130,000 of them, who were shipped off to parts of the British Empire between 1860 and 1930 and forgotten. Ev

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

This collection focuses on child welfare in its specific sense: welfare and social interventions with children and young people undertaken by State bodies or NG

"In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on the discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions