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Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Bridgeman Blog Bridgeman Team 2016 Overview of the Drawing on Childhood Exhibition then on display at the Foundling Museum in London. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Marguerita Moorcroft obituary Ruth Jampel 2021 Other lives: High-ranking civil servant who started life in a Liverpool orphanage - an article about the life of Marguerita Moorcroft who was in an orphanage at age 3, left school at age 13 and went on to be become the first female assistant working in the Insolvency section of the civil service. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Extraordinary Journey: The Lifelong Path of the Transracial Adoptee Mark Hagland 2021 Transracial adoptee, Mark Hagland, reflects on subjects such as negotiation idendity, being different, interacting with birth culture, and visiting one's country of birth. In this book, he includes the stories of other transractial adoptees from a variety of countries of origin. External Website

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Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Create Foundation ​ 2023 Australian advocacy organisation, CREATE Foundation, have committed to a #snapthatstigma campaign for 5 years from 2022. They say way to change the ongoing negative impact of stigma and prejudice on children and young people in the Australian out of home care system is to “to present stories in the media that emphasise positive outcomes for children and young people.” On their website, CREATE features a number of stories “that emphasise positive outcomes”. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Finding hope. An imperfect journey to growth and happiness Leah Elizabeth 2020 Leah Elizabeth J chronicles her life from foster care to adulthood and living a life of hope and courage. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Sleepers (memoir) Lorenzo Carcaterra 1995 Lorenzo Carcaterra (b. 1954) is an American writer whose most famous book is Sleepers (1995), the story of an accident in 1967 that put him and 3 friends into a juvenile detention centre for at least 12 months. The boys were sexually and physically abused by the guards. External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People The House of Jaipur: The Inside Story of India's Most Glamorous Royal Family John Zubrzycki 2020 When the head of the House of Jaipur died in 1922, his adopted son, Jai, was only 10 years old. At the age of 12, Jai married a princess from the Jodhpur Royal family although the couple did not live together for some years. John Zubrzcki's book explores how Jai and his wife, Ayesha, were seen as a glamorous couple but behind the scenes were family feuds and the impact of alcoholism. External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People An Uncontrollable Child Reggie Sultan 2008 After running away and stealing cars, Reggie Sultan was described as 'an uncontrollable child'. Reggie tells his story of boys homes, of his escapes, being sent to gaol, his work as a stockman, and his development as an Aboriginal artist. External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People Scenes From the Life of Harriet Tubman Sarah Hopkins Bradford 1869 In 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War, Sarah Hopkins Bradford wrote her first of two groundbreaking books, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Tubman escaped slavery and then returned to help many others escape as well; travelling to the northern United States and Canada before the Civil War, using the Underground Railroad. Bradford wrote the book, using extensive interviews with Tubman, to raise funds for Tubman's support. The two became friends. It was the first Tubman biography of any depth. Bradford was one of the first Caucasian writers to deal with African-American topics, and her work attracted worldwide fame, selling very well. In 1886, she followed up with Harriet Tubman, Moses of Her People, again to assist in supporting Tubman. Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffrage. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate overseer threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another enslaved person, but hit her instead. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which occurred throughout her life. After her injury, Tubman began experiencing strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God. These experiences, combined with her Methodist upbringing, led her to become devoutly religious. External Website

Behind the Scenes Barry Jenkins ​ ​ Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was born in 1979 at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, the youngest of four siblings, each from a different father. His father separated from his mother while she was pregnant with Jenkins, believing that he was not Jenkins's father; he died when Jenkins was 12. Jenkins grew up in Liberty City and was primarily raised by another older woman (who had also looked after his mother while she was a teenager) in an overcrowded apartment. He attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School, where he played football and ran track. He made his filmmaking debut with the short film My Josephine. Following an eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking, Jenkins directed and co-wrote the LGBT-themed independent drama Moonlight (2016), which won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. He became the fourth black person to be nominated for Best Director and the second black person to direct a Best Picture winner. He released his third directorial feature If Beale Street Could Talk, in 2018 to critical praise, and earned nominations for his screenplay at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles CELCIS blog on superheroes from the care system Charlotte Armitage 2018 Charlotte Armitage writes about how society often portrays Care Experienced People as the 'baddies'. Stan Lee's representation of Spider-Man, however, is very different. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Care leavers deserve to be seen for their talents Lucy Barnes 2022 University of Surrey launched a new scholarship to support students who've been in care. Law student Lucy Barnes, who graduated from Surrey in 2018 and has built up a successful career as a barrister, tells us how such an initiative would have made a huge difference to her... External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox Lois Banner 2013 This is a biography of Marilyn Monroe which includes the account of Norma Jean's time in foster, kinship and residential care. Lois Banner explores Norma Jean's difficult childhood and her journey from there to making it in Hollywood, marrying Joe DiMaggio and her tragic end. External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People One Life: My Mother's Story Kate Grenville 2016 This narrative memoir celebrates the life of best-selling and award-winning novelist Kate Grenville's mother. Nance Russell was born in 1912 in country New South Wales to working class parents who worked assiduously to move up the social ladder. As they were doing so, they often left their children with others. Nancy was in kinship care, foster care, and boarding school. She then, at the insistence of her mother, became a pharmacist, swapping that career in life for teaching, the profession she had wanted as a child. External Website

Behind the Scenes Barbara Sumner-Burstyn ​ ​ New Zealander Barbara Sumner was 10 days old in 1960 when she was adopted. She and her partner, Tom Burstyn, a cinematographer born in Canada, founded Cloud South Films (NZ) in 2005 and Cloud South North Films (Canada) in 2013. They have won a number of awards for their documentaries. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir The God Squad Paddy Doyle 1988 In 1988, Irish disability activist Paddy Doyle (1951-2020) published his memoir, The God Squad, about being sent to live in St Michael's Industrial School run by the Sisters of Mercy in Cappoquin, Counter Waterford. Paddy Doyle talks in The God Squad of being so badly abused at St Michael's that he was left with psychosomatic condiitions and confined to a wheelchair from the age of 10. The God Squad was groundbreaking, an immediate best-seller which won the Dublin Lord Mayor's Award, the Sunday Tribune Arts Award for Literature and the Christy Brown Award for Literature. Dermot Bolger, who published The God Squad, said the book "played a part in transforming Ireland." External Website

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Behind the Scenes Edward Albee ​ ​ Edward Franklin Albee III ( A1928 – 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Albee was placed for adopted when he was two weeks old and adopted by a theatre owner and a socialite. Some critics have argued that some of Albee's work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albee's mix of theatricality and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent postwar American theatre in the early 1960s. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Growing up in care Áine Kelly 2016 Áine Kelly describes how she began to access healthcare again after humiliating childhood experiences, including being removed from her parents by the police and being placed in the care of the state. External Website