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Libraries Tasmania

Logan Steiner on Learning Life Lessons from Anne of Green Gables

Literary Hub (4)

The Royal Caledonian Education Trust

The Royal Caledonian Education Trust

GOM Central

Elm Place

Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings.

Life story books and later life letters

The Wizardry of Boz

Literary Hub (3)

Orphans in fiction

British Library

Children in care need long-term support, not punishment | David Akinsanya

David Akinsanya (Children in Care)

Gil Scott-Heron saved my life

Malik Al Nasir

An open letter to Long Lost Family from an adoptee

Anon

Category:Fictional orphans

Anon

Ronnie Archer-Morgan shares his fostering story

Ronnie Archer-Morgan

Orphans in Literature

Dave Astor

Theodore's story - Coram Story #realstoriesofcare

Theodore Barrow

Success Stories and Sad Statistics?

Wayne Biffa

John’s story – one of the first foundlings

Janette Bright

7 Novels about Orphans

Elizabeth Brooks

Nobody's Child by GJ Urquhart – Book Review. Leeds care home memoir.

Sandra Callard

The PhD question…

Rosie Canning

Taking control of the narrative with my debut novel Careless

Kirsty Capes

How 10 Orphans From eSwatini Helped Write A Prize-Winning Movie

Rachel Cohen

Vivaldi taught Venetian orphan girls – did they help write his music in return?

Harriet Constable

Coram in literature

Coram (Literature)

Orphan's role in movie upsets adoption groups

David Crary

A ladder to the stars: Ian Dickson’s reflections on 70 years of the care system

Ian Dickson

Mercy's story (Coram)

Mercy

Kirsty Capes | 'It’s important to have stories about the care experience that are positive' | The Bookseller

Charlotte Eyre

The True Story Behind the Netflix Series 'Unbelievable'

Mahita Gajanan

Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen to join Luke Wilson in upcoming Fort Worth film ’12 Mighty Orphans'

Michael Granberry

Are care leavers really more likely to go to prison than university? – ExChange

Neil Harrison

The life-changing power of a street dog named Lucy

Ishbel Holmes

From the first admissions: How care has changed in 280 years

Carol Homden

Delma Hughes: I grew up in a world without parents

Delma Hughes

A digital archive of care experienced people in fiction, on screen and in real life

IMO

I felt a strange grief when I found my birth mother': Jackie Kay on The Adoption Papers

Jackie Kay

Blog: Stigma and the care experience

Denisha Killoh

Care leavers met with Jacqueline Wilson to debate the true reality of care

Eve Livingston

All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

Literary Hub (Martin)

Hariet Martineau

Literary Hub (Martineau)

Hidden women of history: 'how 'lady swindler' Alexandrina Askew triumphed over the convict stain

Janet McCalman

Sugarcane London: ‘This is all comfort food’ – restaurant review

Tarell Mcintosh

Real Life Super Heroes

Dee Michell

"Intentional Neglect." On the Creation of Nationalized Child Protection in Victorian England

Lit Hub (Montgomery)

In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature:

Literary Hub (Bradford Morrow)

How damaging are stories of damage?

Kenny Murray

In defence of second chances

Kenneth Muray

How Being Privately Fostered In White Families Impacted These People's Lives And Identities

Ade Onibada

Children in care are not just numbers: we must challenge the stigma

Jimmy Paul

Neil Morrissey revisits his children's home roots

Raekha Prasad

Drawing on Childhood: New exhibition examines why so many of our most cherished fictional heroes are orphans | The Independent

Etan Smallman

How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Literary Hub (Maya Angelou)

Bridgeman Blog

Bridgeman Team

Alan Turing (1912-1954) - noted Computer Scientist and Mathematician

Alan Turing

The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families | The New Yorker

Michael Waters

‘Dream come true’: Orphans evacuated to Australia in perilous journey through Afghanistan

Rashida Yosufzai

The Strange Myth of Romulus and Remus, The Founders of Rome

History Defined

Child Migrant Trust

Child Migrant Trust

Care Experienced History Month

Care Experienced History Month

Care Experience Conference

Care Experience Conference

Doctor Who: The Timeless Children or Dr Who was a foundling

Doctor Who

More than our childhoods

More than our childhoods

Stolen Generations Testimonies

Stolen Generations' Testimonies

AOM (Australian Orphanage Museum)

CLAN

I left care at 15 and soon went to borstal. Young people can’t just be abandoned | David Akinsanya

David Akinsanya (Left care at 15)

Ploughshares at Emerson College

Kelly Amber

10 Screwed Up Movie Orphans

Spout

Films about orphans

Anon

CELCIS blog on superheroes from the care system

Charlotte Armitage

Lilian Bader: The First Black Woman to join the RAF

Lillian Bader

Orphans | film by Pakula [1987]

Michael Barson

“America’s Literary Giant.” On the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe in Vietnam

Literary Hub (Nguyễn Bình )

Mary's story

Janette Bright

John Brownlow's story

John Brownlow

Crazy Diamonds

Rosie Canning

Orphans & Care Experience in Literature

Rosie Canning

I’ve Been In A Bad Mood

Chris Chmielewski

Billy Connolly: ‘I’ve been scared my whole life’

Billy Connolly

Who was Thomas Coram?

Thomas Coram

Henry Fielding, Tom Jones and care

Amy Cotterill

Teenage Tales: Sneaking Looks In Sexy Books

Emily Danforth

That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu review – a fresh and powerful debut

Michael Donkor

A Hidden Intersectionality: Care Experience, Disability

Lys Eden; Jamie Crabb

Challenging the Over-Representation of Care Experienced Women in Prison

Fitzpatrick.C., Hunter. K

The Children’s rights Movement and the Charity sector.

Sean Geoghegan

Book Review: That Reminds Me

Barbara Grant

Examining Rita Mae Brown’s “Rubyfruit Jungle”

Anna J Haynes

How one stray dog changed my life forever

Ishbel Holmes

The Queen's Gambit is a striking study of female genius, and the drama of the year

Sarah Hughes

Almost half of children in care fear stigma

Louise Hunt

A Conversation with Daniel Ingram-Brown

Daniel Ingram-Brown

Jackie Kay on putting her adoption on stage – and getting a pay rise for her successor

Jackie Kay

The Uses of Orphans

Alison Kinney

MIRRA Project

MIRRA Project

"Just Annie"

Kristen Martin

Your Sexuality Is the Least Interesting Thing About You: Rita Mae Brown on RubyFruit Jungle's Rerelease

Llana Masad

Tokyo Olympics: 'I just wanted a normal life' - Ireland's McFerran recalls childhood in foster care with BBC Sport NI's Nigel Ringland

Ayeisha McFerran

DrDee-ThinkingOutLoud

Dee Michell

The Orphanage' ('Parwareshgah'): Film Review | Cannes 2019

Jordan Mintzer

Literary Hub

Liz Moore

Orphans in Fiction - The British Library

John Mullan

My name is Kenny and I love animals

Kenny Murray

Character Type: Orphan

Scott Myers

How the Mainstream Media Sees Us

Shalita O’Neale

Benjamin Perks: Blogsite

Benjamin Perks

Let’s Not Forget Charles Dickens’s Other Christmas Ghost Stories!

Literary Hub (Olivia Rutigliano)
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Author of ‘Hackney Child’ on absent parents, care homes, and Mother’s Day

Cachella Smith

‘12 Mighty Orphans’ film to premiere in Fort Worth, TX in 2020 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Stefan Stevenson

Filming The One Percent

The One Percent

New portrait of Queen Victoria's African goddaughter unveiled

Hannah Uzor

Who Cares? Scotland project wins national campaign award

Who Cares Scotland

How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

Literary Hub (5)

On the Missed Crimean Connection between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

Literary Hub (Tolstoy)

Create Foundation

Find & Connect

Find & Connect

John Fashanu

National Aged and Community Care Roundtable for Forgotten Australians

National Aged and Community Care Roundtable for Forgotten Australians

Transfiguring Adoption

I was a child in care. We needed love, not chemicals | David Akinsanya

David Akinsanya

Searching for my slave roots

Malik Al Nasir

Lockdown Poetry

Amberleigh Care

The Best Movies About Orphans

Anon

Orphan Stories | Encyclopedia.com

Anon

What is it really like being a Care Experienced Person?

Charlotte Armitage

Care leavers deserve to be seen for their talents

Lucy Barnes

Floella Benjamin (blog)

Floella Benjamin

Eleanor and George’s story – love at the Foundling Hospital

Janette Bright

Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Determinism and Stigma...

Jack Brookes

CELCIS Reach - article on the creative workshops run by Inspired Youth

CELCIS

A Conversation about Tracy Beaker...

Rosie Canning

A Portrait Of Care (@aportraitofcare) • Instagram photos and videos

Rosie Canning

Movies

Christian Alliance for Orphans

"Invasion is a Structure Not an Event"

Lit Hub (Joseph Conrad)

Charlie Chaplin and the story of care

Coram (Charlie Chaplin)

Her name was Jean: International Women's Day 2021

Jamie Crabb

Unbelievable review – grimly credible story of trauma, power and injustice

Hannah Daviies

What Would Gabriel García Márquez Have Thought of the Netflix Version of His Novel?

Literary Hub (Garcia Marquez)

Care Collective Zine - Issue 1.pdf

Lys Eden

Whatever happened to the little girl who played Annie?

Lisa Flowers

‘Trailblazer’ in the rights movement for children in care. Television Director, Screen writer.

Sean Geoghegan

There's a lot of stigma': why do so few care leavers go to university? | Universities | The Guardian

Rachel Hall

The Curious Fate of Care Leavers in Crime Fiction

Sarah Hilary

When Ishbel met Lucy

Bradt Holmes Guides et al.

It was lonely growing up in care – but I felt even more isolated after I left | Fostering | The Guardian

Louise Hughes

Most Popular Orphan Girl Movies and TV Shows

IMDb

Marguerita Moorcroft obituary

Ruth Jampel

Growing up in care

Áine Kelly

Lemn Sissay: ‘All care stories should be successful ones’

Anastasia Koutsounia

The Train of Happiness

Phyllis Macchioni

A Reflection on a long career in Social Work

Ruth Martin

12 Best Movies About Orphans

Biplab Mazumder

A Lesson in Motherhood

Paula McLain

Jenni Fagan's Ootlin - book review

Dee Michell

Setting the Record Straight for the Rights of
the Child

Setting the Record Straight for the Rights of the Child

I was one of Britain's last foundlings

Joanna Moorhead

The 430 Books in Marilyn Monroe’s Library: How Many Have You Read?

Open Culture

Comment: Is ‘lived experience’ a change-maker or ball and chain?

Kenny Murray

A Moment in Care

Emma Norry

Neil Morrissey's rags to riches tale of growing up in Stoke-on-Trent care home

Hayley Parker

I wasn't told why I was taken into care. For years I thought it was my fault

Kerrie Portman

Nicky Campbell: "There was a life long whisper: 'my mother didn't want me'"

Georgia Shepheard

On Killing Charles Dickens

Zadie Smith

The Meaning of Maggie in Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif'

Catherine Sustana et al.

Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo

The Rest is History

I wanted to write about a care system that didn’t care very much': Kit de Waal on My Name Is Leon

Kit de Waal

Who We Are

Who Cares Scotland

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