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Stolen Generations Testimonies

Stolen Generations' Testimonies

Logan Steiner on Learning Life Lessons from Anne of Green Gables

Literary Hub (4)

Find & Connect

Find & Connect

James Covey, African Sailor, Helps the Amistad Captives to Freedom

New England Historical Society

Care Experienced History Month

Care Experienced History Month

The Indian Act, Residential Schools and Tuberculosis Cover Up

Indigenous Corporate Training Inc

How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

Literary Hub (5)

National Aged and Community Care Roundtable for Forgotten Australians

National Aged and Community Care Roundtable for Forgotten Australians

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)

Searching for my slave roots

Malik Al Nasir

On Tracker Tilmouth's Trip to the UN in Geneva

Literary Hub

Orphan Stories | Encyclopedia.com

Anon

Films about orphans

Anon

10 Screwed Up Movie Orphans

Spout

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

Success Stories and Sad Statistics?

Wayne Biffa

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

Rosie Canning

Crazy Diamonds

Rosie Canning

I’ve Been In A Bad Mood

Chris Chmielewski

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

Rachel Cohen

"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)

A Hidden Intersectionality: Care Experience, Disability

Lys Eden; Jamie Crabb

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

Charlotte Eyre

Interview with Jilly Cooper

Phil

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

Sean Geoghegan

Packing Like a Fury

Tessa Hadley

Examining Rita Mae Brown’s “Rubyfruit Jungle”

Anna J Haynes

How one stray dog changed my life forever

Ishbel Holmes

Home Children

Home Children

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

Marguerita Moorcroft obituary

Ruth Jampel

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

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

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

Real Life Super Heroes

Dee Michell

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

Jordan Mintzer

Literary Hub

Liz Moore

Orphans in Fiction - The British Library

John Mullan

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

Kenny Murray

As Stolen Generations survivors ‘pass away at a rapid rate’, some still await official redress

The Conversation

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

Ade Onibada

Lorraine Pascale's Story: From Foster Child To Food Network Favorite

Read More: https://www.mashed.com/1910240/food-network-host-lorraine-pascale-transformation/

Lorraine Pascale

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

Kerrie Portman

Safer Compared to What?

The Imprint

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

Georgia Shepheard

Author of ‘Hackney Child’ on absent parents, care homes, and Mother’s Day

Cachella Smith

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

Literary Hub (Maya Angelou)

Why are Orphan Heroes such Compelling Protagonists in Children’s Literature?

Writers & Artists

Filming The One Percent

The One Percent

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

Orphans in fiction

British Library

Life story books and later life letters

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

History Defined

GOM Central

Elm Place

Libraries Tasmania

Child Migrant Trust

Child Migrant Trust

Care Experience Conference

Care Experience Conference

John Fashanu

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

Ploughshares at Emerson College

Kelly Amber

The Best Movies About Orphans

Anon

An open letter to Long Lost Family from an adoptee

Anon

Ronnie Archer-Morgan shares his fostering story

Ronnie Archer-Morgan

Orphans in Literature

Dave Astor

Care leavers deserve to be seen for their talents

Lucy Barnes

Floella Benjamin (blog)

Floella Benjamin

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

Literary Hub (Nguyễn Bình )

John’s story – one of the first foundlings

Janette Bright

7 Novels about Orphans

Elizabeth Brooks

Care Leavers National Movement

Care Leavers National Movement

A Conversation about Tracy Beaker...

Rosie Canning

The PhD question…

Rosie Canning

Movies

Christian Alliance for Orphans

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

Billy Connolly

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

Harriet Constable

Who was Thomas Coram?

Thomas Coram

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

Care Collective Zine - Issue 1.pdf

Lys Eden

Challenging the Over-Representation of Care Experienced Women in Prison

Fitzpatrick.C., Hunter. K

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

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

Almost half of children in care fear stigma

Louise Hunt

A Conversation with Daniel Ingram-Brown

Daniel Ingram-Brown

50+ Orphans in Literature

The Write Practice

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

Jackie Kay

The Uses of Orphans

Alison Kinney

Joan Didion's Blue Nights

[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum

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

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

My name is Kenny and I love animals

Kenny Murray

Cascades Female Factory

Australian Government

How the Mainstream Media Sees Us

Shalita O’Neale

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

Jimmy Paul

Neil Morrissey revisits his children's home roots

Raekha Prasad

Lowitja O’Donoghue statue unveiling in Elder Park

InDaily

Adoptee memorial park Omma Poom/엄마품동산, Paju.

Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom

On Killing Charles Dickens

Zadie Smith

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

Stefan Stevenson

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

Catherine Sustana et al.

Point Puer

University of Tasmania

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

Alan Turing

The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families | The New Yorker

Michael Waters

Who Cares? Scotland project wins national campaign award

Who Cares Scotland

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

Frank Berry’s The Lost Children of Tuam wins Best Film at the 38th Galway Film Fleadh

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

Transfiguring Adoption

More than our childhoods

More than our childhoods

On the Missed Crimean Connection between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

Literary Hub (Tolstoy)

The Wizardry of Boz

Literary Hub (3)

Create Foundation

AOM (Australian Orphanage Museum)

CLAN

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

David Akinsanya

‘It could happen here’: Lord of the Flies took its lessons from Hitler’s Germany. They speak to now

The Conversation

FosterWiki

Sarah Anderson

Lockdown Poetry

Amberleigh Care

Category:Fictional orphans

Anon

What is it really like being a Care Experienced Person?

Charlotte Armitage

Queen's Orphan Asylum

Find & Connect

Theodore's story - Coram Story #realstoriesofcare

Theodore Barrow

Culture misunderstood, families separated

Leidenlawblog

The Artist’s Book: Mothers’ Experiences of Adoption

Stella Bolaki, Samantha Davey

Mary's story

Janette Bright

John Brownlow's story

John Brownlow

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

Sandra Callard

Orphans & Care Experience in Literature

Rosie Canning

Taking control of the narrative with my debut novel Careless

Kirsty Capes

Constance Couronne: From Enslaved Child in Mauritius to Emancipated Convict Grandmother in New South Wales

Convicts, Creolization & Cosmopolitanism in the British & French Empires

Peregrina Sails

Elana Connor

Coram in literature

Coram (Literature)

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

To Haunt & Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe

Literary Hub

Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through his Sherlock Holmes stories

The Conversation

Whatever happened to the little girl who played Annie?

Lisa Flowers

The Children’s rights Movement and the Charity sector.

Sean Geoghegan

Book Review: That Reminds Me

Barbara Grant

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

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

Sarah Hughes

Most Popular Orphan Girl Movies and TV Shows

IMDb

The way David Bowie overcame family abuse has much to teach us, says psychologist

Oliver James

The Transformed You

The Transformed You

Growing up in care

Áine Kelly

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

Anastasia Koutsounia

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

Adoption Research: Owatonna State Public School

Gale Family Library

"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

Character Type: Orphan

Scott Myers

A Moment in Care

Emma Norry

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

Hayley Parker

Benjamin Perks: Blogsite

Benjamin Perks

What Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood Reveals About Its Author's Intentions

Literary Hub

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

Literary Hub (Olivia Rutigliano)
)

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

Etan Smallman

Wolf children in Lithuania: The forgotten orphans of WW2

Bettina Stehkämper

Patricia Cornwell survived her parents’ breakdown, psychosis and neglect by creating her own worlds

The Conversation

Bridgeman Blog

Bridgeman Team

Northern Territory Stolen Generations survivor William Tilmouth wins top honour at 2025 Human Rights Awards

ABC News

New portrait of Queen Victoria's African goddaughter unveiled

Hannah Uzor

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

Doctor Who

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

Rashida Yosufzai

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