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BHC Events
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BHC History
( 14 Articles )
By the end of the 19th century, dozens of organizations were responsible for the immigration of children to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These articles provide information on some of them.
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BHC News
( 56 Articles )
General Information on resources, news, and data for BHC researchers.
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BHC Stories
( 13 Articles )
This category allows us to see the stories and histories written first-hand by BHCs and their families.
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BHC: The Sad Reality and Dark Side
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British Home Children sometimes thrived in their new environments. Others did not. As a result, certain events and occurrences were recorded which showed how, more often than should have ever happened to these children, their lives were not shaped in joy and harmony, but in situations that affected them the rest of their lives. This category covers apologies by governments; personal tragedies; and news related to the hard times and dark side of being BHC.
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Letters by Dale Family Siblings in Middlemore
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Below are 38 letters which were principally written by three of the Dale home children to their sister Alice Dale Goodwin in Birmingham, England. The letters allow the reader a rare opportunity to intimately view details of their lives after Middlemore with subjects such as marriage, children, family, war, and their experiences as home children. There were no letters found written by Middlemore child Lily Dale Maxwell, who, although she could read and write, did not correspond often.
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Letters from Maria Rye Children
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Sending Agency Founders
( 10 Articles )
From Thomas Barnardo to Annie McPherson, these are the Founders of the Sending Agencies behind the British Home Children emigration schemes.
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Victorian Poor
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To understand the reasoning behind the mass immigration of the poorest children in Britain, one has to understand the circumstances of their lives. These articles neither defend nor argue but allow us a glimpse into the horrors of English slum life.
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