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Academic Books & Book Chapters

Silent System: Forgotten Australians the Institutionalisation of Women and Children

Paul Ashton & Jacqueline Z Wilson (Editors

The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

John Boswell

Weaving a Web of Belonging: Developing a Trauma-Informed Culture for All Children

Lisa Cherry

Cultural, autobiographical and absent memories of orphanhood

Delyth Edwards

Street urchins, sociopaths and degenerates: orphans of late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction

William David Floyd

Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women

Jenny Hartley

Dickens The Orphan Condition

Baruch Hochman; Ilja Wachs

The magic of Harry Potter for children in care

Sarah Mokrzycki

The Scars Remain: A Long History of Forgotten Australians and Children's Institutions

Nell Musgrove

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body

Cheryl L Nixon

Who Cares?: Young People in Care Speak Out

Raissa Page, G A Clark (editors

Orphan texts: Victorian orphans, culture and empire

Laura Peters

The Stolen Generations. The removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969

Peter Read

Orphans: A History

Jeremy Seabrook

Behind Closed Doors: Hidden Histories of Children Committed to Care in the Late Nineteenth Century (1882-1899)

Annie Skinner

What Works for Young People Leaving Care?

Mike Stein

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo?

Gonda Van Steen

Transmedia Harry Potter: Essays on Storytelling Across Platforms

Christopher E Bell

Voices of the Lost Children of Greece: Oral Histories of Cold War International Adoption

Mary Cardaras (Editor)

Parragirls: Reimagining Parramatta Girls Home through art and memory

Bonney Djuric

The Story of the Pink Cat: An Exploration of the Ways Care-Experienced People Navigate Inheritance by Delyth Edwards & Rosie Canning

Delyth Edwards & Rosie Canning

Convict Orphans

Lucy Frost

Collective Revenge: Challenging the Individualist Victim-Avenger in Death Proof, Sleepers, and Mystic River

Claire Henry

UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970: A Study in Policy Failure

Gordon Lynch

Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship in London

Lydia Murdoch

Voices from the Silent Cradles - Life Histories of Romania’s Looked-After Children

Mariela Neagu

Imagining Adoption.

Marianne Novy (Editor)

Jacqueline Wilson (New Casebooks)

Lucy Pearson

Enuring Stuggle: St Mary's Tardun Farm School

David Plowman

The Children of Looked After Children: Outcomes, Experiences and Ensuring Meaningful Support to Young Parents In and Leaving Care

Louise Roberts

Orphans Real and Imaginary

Eileen Simpson

A Home from Home? Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1870-1920

Claudia Soares

Leaving care (out of print)

Mike Stein et al

Re-reading Orphanhood

Diane Warren and Laura Peters (Editors)

Orphans of Empire. The fate of London's foundlings

Helen Berry

Goodna Girls

Adele Chenowyth

Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory

Kate Douglas

Representing Aboriginal Childhood
The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia

Joanne Faulkner

The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century

Gymnich, Marion; Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara; Sedlmayr, Gerold.

Children's Homes. A History of Institutional Care for Britain's Young

Peter Higginbotham

The Slow Evolution of Foster Care in Australia
Just Like a Family?

Michell et al.

After the orphanage: life beyond the children's home

Murray et al

Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929

Claudia Nelson

Visibly Invisible - The tale of a Black Female Social Worker

Rebecca Olayinka

Orphans of the Living: Growing Up in Care in Twentieth-Century Australia

Joanna Penglase

The Orphan: A Journey to Wholeness

Audrey Punnett

Raising Government Children

Catherine Rymph

Relinquished

Gretchen Sisson

Care Less Lives - The story of the rights movement of young people in care

Stein et al

Making home: Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

Maria Holmgren Troy

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