Convict Orphans

Author : Lucy Frost
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781761186158

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Convict Orphans by Lucy Frost Pdf

Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking research has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans. 'This moving story of thousands of cast away children is a vital part of our nation's history.' - David Hill, author of The Forgotten Children All families have their secrets, and a convict ancestor or an illegitimate birth were shames that families once buried deep. Among the best-hidden stories in Australia's history are those of the convict orphans. Agnes arrived on a convict transport aged four and was abandoned when her mother needed to escape an abusive husband. After their mother died and their father deserted them, Maria and Eliza Marriner were taken into state care too. Cut off from family, behind the walls of the imposing sandstone buildings of the Queen's Orphan Schools, they were among hundreds of young children entrusted to the much feared Matron Smyth. At the age of twelve, the children left the orphanage to work without pay on farms and in homes-some of them places where no child should ever have been sent. Although colonists called it white slavery, the authorities turned a blind eye to what was really happening. These are stories of abuse and abandonment, and also of great generosity and kindness from individuals who rescued and supported children. Some children managed to build happy lives for themselves, but many could not navigate a system stacked against them. There are disturbing parallels between the Queen's Orphan Schools in Hobart and other children's institutions in Australia into the 21st century. 'A beautifully written book detailing the evocative, heartbreaking stories of convict orphans painstakingly pieced together' - Professor Tanya Evans, author of Fractured Families 'A fascinating study, richly textured, and extremely well-researched' - Professor Barry Godfrey, University of Liverpool

Author : Alan Gill
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 1149 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742747637

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Orphans of The Empire by Alan Gill Pdf

This is a book about the white stolen children - a lost tribe - who were sent to Australia with dreams of a better life, but who, in reality, often suffered great cruelty and abuse. 'This book draws back the curtain on a part of Australian and British history that has been crying out for recognition. All Australians shoud read it' Sir Ronald Wilson 'This story is remarkable. Even more remarkable is the fact that, until now, it was largely untold. This is an important story, an important part of Australia's story and long overdue' David Hill 'Orphans of the Empire is unusually affecting, hard to put down..' Geraldine Doogue An account of the white 'stolen children', who were supposedly orphans arriving in Australia from many countries to a better future, but who in reality simply came from poor families and arrived to uncertain futures and often extremely abusive environments in various institutions. More than 80,000 people were directly involved in this experience as 'orphans', while thousands more have been affected by the experience as children and relatives of the orphans, and as Australian-born children who were also living in the institutions described in this book. Although there were occasional great acts of kindness towards these children there was also systematic abuse of all kinds. Orphans of the Empire is based on hundreds of hours of taped interviews with men and women who came to Australia as child migrants. It is the complete and shocking story that was first made known through 4 Corners and 60 Minutes stories and the BBC's very popular Leaving Of Liverpool series.

Author : John Boulton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317355311

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Aboriginal Children, History and Health by John Boulton Pdf

This volume traces the complex reasons behind the disturbing discrepancy between the health and well-being of children in mainstream Australia and those in remote Indigenous communities. Invaluably informed by Boulton’s close working knowledge of Aboriginal communities, the book addresses growth faltering as a crisis of Aboriginal parenting and a continued problem for the Australian nation. The high rate and root causes of ill-health amongst Aboriginal children are explored through a unique synthesis of historical, anthropological, biological and medical analyses. Through this fresh approach, which includes the insights of specialists from a range of disciplines, Aboriginal Children, History and Health provides a thoughtful and innovative framework for considering Indigenous health.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139442384

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Legacies of Colonial English by Raymond Hickey Pdf

As a result of colonization, many varieties of English now exist around the world. Originally published in 2005, Legacies of Colonial English brings together a team of internationally renowned scholars to discuss the role of British dialects in both the genesis and subsequent history of postcolonial Englishes. Considering the input of Scottish, English and Irish dialects, they closely examine a wide range of Englishes - including those in North and South America, South Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand - and explain why many of them still reflect non-standard British usage from the distant past. Complete with a checklist of dialect features, a detailed glossary and set of general references on the topic of postcolonial Englishes, this book will be an invaluable source to scholars and students of English language and linguistics, particularly those interested in sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology.

Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Penal colonies
ISBN : MINN:319510023813992

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Convict Discipline and Transportation by Great Britain. Colonial Office Pdf

Author : Kentucky,Charles Anderson Wickliffe,Squire Turner,Samuel Smith Nicholas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Kentucky
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064251148

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The Revised Statutes of Kentucky by Kentucky,Charles Anderson Wickliffe,Squire Turner,Samuel Smith Nicholas Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10254184

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The revised Statutes of Kentucky by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bryan Gandevia,Sheila Simpson
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015072130985

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Tears Often Shed by Bryan Gandevia,Sheila Simpson Pdf

Non-Aboriginal material.

Author : K. Lesnik-Oberstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230307094

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Children in Culture, Revisited by K. Lesnik-Oberstein Pdf

Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture , and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity.

Author : Jodi Death
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317195399

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Governing Child Abuse Voices and Victimisation by Jodi Death Pdf

Child sexual abuse by clergy within the Roman Catholic Church has emerged as a social and political discourse over the last three decades. The analysis here specifically focuses on the establishment, conduct, and outcomes of the extensive public inquiries of Australia, although inquiries in other jurisdictions are also discussed. Unlike criminal or civil processes, although they may be inquisitory in nature, public inquiries emerge from a specifically political context and are a tool of governance embedded in a larger context of governmentality. Understanding the broader political and cultural contexts of public inquiries is important, then, in understanding their value and effectiveness as justice processes – especially for victims of CSA by clergy. What is interesting about public inquiry is that it situates victims of CSA by clergy outside of criminal and civil justice processes and recognises a different politicised relationship between victims as citizens, the state, and Catholic institutions where abuse has occurred. At the cutting edge of disciplinary and methodological understandings of the interconnections between the church, state and families, his book explores the dynamics of the emergence and politicisation of victims of CSA by clergy, their expressions of resistance and the legitimisation of their voice in public and political spheres.

Author : Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Friendly visiting
ISBN : HARVARD:32044013509229

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Hand-book for Friendly Visitors Among the Poor by Charity Organization Society of the City of New York Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385325708

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Hand-Book for Friendly Visitors Among the Poor by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Kentucky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Session laws
ISBN : SRLF:A0001914118

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Acts Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth of Kentucky by Kentucky Pdf

Includes public acts, local and private acts.

Author : Diane Powell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000246742

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Out West by Diane Powell Pdf

This is the story of Sydney's much maligned western suburbs: how the city spread across the plains to the Blue Mountains, and why the 'westie' stigma haunts the people of the region. Resourceful and innovative, the people of the western suburbs have created a culture of their own, defying the 'westie' stigma. Out West uncovers the intricate social and cultural networks that make western Sydney a dynamic and stimulating place to live. Out West looks at how the land of the Darug people of the Cumberland Plain was first settled by whites in colonial times. It then traces the development of the 'westie' stigma from the time of inner-city slum clearances to post-war immigration and the more recent waves of moral panic about the youth of the region. It focuses in particular upon the way in which the media have contributed to the maintenance of the 'westie' image.

Author : Daniel Thomas Cook
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 4001 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529721959

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies by Daniel Thomas Cook Pdf

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood. Transdisciplinary and transnational in content and scope, the Encyclopedia both reflects and enables the wide range of approaches, fields and understandings that have been brought to bear on the ever-transforming problem of the "child" over the last four decades This four-volume encyclopedia covers a wide range of themes and topics, including: Social Constructions of Childhood Children’s Rights Politics/Representations/Geographies Child-specific Research Methods Histories of Childhood/Transnational Childhoods Sociology/Anthropology of Childhood Theories and Theorists Key Concepts This interdisciplinary encyclopedia will be of interest to students and researchers in: Childhood Studies Sociology/Anthropology Psychology/Education Social Welfare Cultural Studies/Gender Studies/Disabilty Studies