Historical Perspectives on the Stigma of Children in Care.
By Dr. Annie Skinner During the latter decades of the nineteenth-century, poor families faced with crises due to poverty, ill-health or...
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- Jun 15
- 3 min
Cuckoo in the Nest by Fran Hill
Review by Carol Sampson Fran Hill’s experiences in foster care have often influenced her writing. Cuckoo in the Nest arose from her...
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- Jan 18
- 6 min
The Bone People
Dr Dee Michell reflects on The Bone People by Keri Hulme. In 1965, Irish writer John McGahern’s novel, The Dark, was banned in Ireland...
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- Oct 24, 2022
- 2 min
Foundling Book Club Event
Care Experience & Culture Foundling Book Club Event: Via Zoom 11th November 2022 and live at the Foundling Museum, London 11am UK /8.30pm...
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- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min
Diversity & Children's Fiction
Care Experience & Culture book club event: Via Zoom 25th June 2022 10am UK time / 6.30pm Adelaide / 7.00pm Melbourne Email:...
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- May 20, 2022
- 4 min
Examining the Past and Challenging the Future by Lindsay Bamfield
Lindsay looks back as well as reflecting on the last couple of Care Experience & Culture book club events Perhaps the reason one of my A'...
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- Apr 18, 2022
- 6 min
What about the 84%?
Dr. Josie Pearse asks: Why is the murderer (almost) always adopted? I'm talking about a stereotype that I began to notice many many years...
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- Feb 13, 2022
- 2 min
Care Experienced History Month
Care Experienced History Month takes place in April every year. Care Experienced people have been a part of societies across the world...
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- Nov 29, 2021
- 2 min
Book Club with Sarah Hilary
Care Experience & Culture book club event: Monday 6th December 10am UK / 9pm Australia Sarah Hilary will be discussing her latest novel...
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- Nov 22, 2021
- 3 min
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
Dr Dee Michell reflects on A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler, a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. A Whole Life is...
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- Nov 12, 2021
- 19 min
A Conversation With Malik Al Nasir
Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir’s profound coming of age memoir – the story of surviving physical and racial abuse and discovering a...
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- Aug 20, 2021
- 8 min
The Challenges of Writing Representations of Adoption in Fiction by Daniel Ingram Brown
As an adoptive dad, author, educator and academic, I have spent some time thinking about representations of adoption in fiction. My new...
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- Jul 15, 2021
- 1 min
Lockdown Poetry
Amberleigh Care (UK) has two locations which run as formal therapeutic communities for teenage boys: deliberately structured settings...
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- Jun 24, 2021
- 4 min
Careless by Kirsty Capes
Dr Dee Michell reflects on Careless, the new novel from Kirsty Capes It was wonderful to read Careless by Kirsty Capes. I’d had the book...
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- May 13, 2021
- 1 min
Launch of the Care Experience & Culture Digital Archive
The Care Experience & Culture Digital Archive Launch took place Sunday 11th April. 11.00 - Welcome Dr Dee Michell & Rosie Canning 11.15 -...
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- Apr 11, 2021
- 3 min
David Akinsanya remembers his media days
I was born to a Nigerian father and English mother in Essex. After 18 months in a private foster home, my mum was forced to stop paying...
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- Mar 9, 2021
- 4 min
Representation by Alan Dapré
I know myself better than anyone. Or so I think. People are complicated. Life is complicated. Rather than being...
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