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Authors A I was a child in care. We needed love, not chemicals | David Akinsanya ➝ Searching for my slave roots ➝ FosterWiki ➝ Orphan Stories | Encyclopedia.com ➝ An open letter to Long Lost Family from an adoptee ➝ CELCIS blog on superheroes from the care system ➝ Children in care need long-term support, not punishment | David Akinsanya ➝ Gil Scott-Heron saved my life ➝ The Best Movies About Orphans ➝ Lockdown Poetry ➝ Ronnie Archer-Morgan shares his fostering story ➝ Orphans in Literature ➝ I left care at 15 and soon went to borstal. Young people can’t just be abandoned | David Akinsanya ➝ Ploughshares at Emerson College ➝ Films about orphans ➝ Category:Fictional orphans ➝ What is it really like being a Care Experienced Person? ➝ A Conversation about Tracy Beaker... ➝ Back to Top

Television Shows Ripley (TV series) 2024 Ripley (2024) is an American psychological thriller based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Talented Mr Ripley (1955). Available on Netflix, Ripley begins in 1950s New York. Tom Ripley, an aging conman, is hired by wealth Herbert Greenleaf to persuade his son, Dickie Greenleaf, to return home from Italy. Soon, Tom lies his way into Dickie’s life, gaining his trust and moulding himself around Dickie’s personality. We learn early in the series that Tom Ripley was orphaned as a small boy and raised by an aunt. External Website

Authors V Vienna Blood ➝ Virgin River ➝ Vigil ➝ Van der Valk ➝ Vera ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos Shooting Fish 1997 Two orphans - one from England and from the US - meet in their 20s and work together to scam wealthy people of their money in order to buy the 'stately home' they've long dreamed about owning. External Website

Radio & Podcast The orphan hero: George King Helen Berry Professor Helen Berry of the University of Exeter gives a lecture on the extraordinary story of an 18th-century foundling, George King who fought, at Trafalgar. External Website

Films/Videos Atomised 2006 Adaptation of controversial French author Michel Houellebecq's novel Les Particules élémentaires. Bruno (Moritz Bleibtreu) and Michael (Christian Ulmen) half-brothers who are very different from each other. They both had an unusual childhood because their mother was a hippie, instead growing up with their grandmothers and in boarding schools. The film implys their upbringing has led them to develop complex and unsatisfactory sex lives. While Bruno can only find satisfaction in meaningless sex with prostitutes, Michael seems to reject sex altogether, focusing his attention instead on his work in genetics. When Michael meets Annabelle (Franka Potente), a woman who turns into the love of his life, he seems to have the chance at a normal relationship, but one that might threaten the world-changing impact of his scientific studies. In the credits the viewer is led to believe that Michael was awarded the nobel prize and Bruno spent the rest of his life in psychiatric institutes. External Website

Films/Videos America 2020 America is a 2009 American made-for-television drama film. A biracial 17-year-old boy named America (Philip Johnson), who has experienced a difficult life of foster care and sexual abuse, undergoes counseling with psychiatrist Maureen Brennan (Rosie O'Donnell) to help him come to terms with his painful past of childhood trauma, including growing up with (and abandoned by) a crack-addicted mother (Toya Turner) and being shuffled through a series of foster homes. The film is based on the young adult novel America by E. R. Frank. External Website

Television Shows The English 2022 The English (2022) is a revisionist Western, a television series set in 1890 and starring Emily Blunt as Lady Cornelia Locke and Chaske Spencer as Eli Whipp. Cornelia Locke has come to America seeking revenge on the man she believes is responsible for the death of her 14-year-old son. Along the way, she meets Eli Whipp, an ex-US cavalry man and member of the Pawnee Nation. Locke and Whipp rescue the 2 orphaned children of a Mennonite couple who have been slaughtered, and Locke delivers the children to the larger Mennonite group. Locke and Whipp also take care of another orphaned boy, White Moon. After a while they entrust White Moon to a travelling surgeon who aspires to establishing a Wild West Show. 13 years later and back in England, Cornelia Locke gets to see White Moon again as he now stars in the touring Wild West Show. External Website

Children's Fiction When Marnie was There Joan G Robinson 1967 When Marnie Was There is a novel by British author Joan G. Robinson, first published in 1967 by Collins. The story follows Anna, in foster care, a young girl who temporarily moves to Norfolk to heal after becoming ill. There she meets a mysterious and headstrong girl named Marnie who lives in a house overlooking the marshes External Website

Authors B Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother, John Lennon ➝ Abraham Lincoln: A Life ➝ Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox ➝ Belle: The Slave Daughter and The Lord Chief Justice ➝ Scenes From the Life of Harriet Tubman ➝ Back to Top

Authors M Modesty Blaise ➝ Back to Top

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Challenging the Over-Representation of Care Experienced Women in Prison Fitzpatrick.C., Hunter. K 2021 Despite popular perceptions continuing to link care experience with troublesome behaviour, just 1% of children enter care because of ‘socially unacceptable behaviour’. However, women who have been in care as children (for example, in foster care or children’s homes) have long been over-represented in the criminal justice system. Whilst only 1% of the general population have been in care, estimates suggest that this is the case for 31% of adult females in custody. This figure is very likely to be an underestimate because of the difficulties in identifying past care experience amongst those in prison. External Website

Authors C Child Migrant Trust ➝ Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings. ➝ Nobody's Child by GJ Urquhart – Book Review. Leeds care home memoir. ➝ The PhD question… ➝ I’ve Been In A Bad Mood ➝ Billy Connolly: ‘I’ve been scared my whole life’ ➝ Who was Thomas Coram? ➝ Henry Fielding, Tom Jones and care ➝ Mercy's story (Coram) ➝ Care Experience Conference ➝ Care Experienced History Month ➝ A Portrait Of Care (@aportraitofcare) • Instagram photos and videos ➝ Orphans & Care Experience in Literature ➝ Movies ➝ "Invasion is a Structure Not an Event" ➝ Charlie Chaplin and the story of care ➝ Her name was Jean: International Women's Day 2021 ➝ Create Foundation ➝ CELCIS Reach - article on the creative workshops run by Inspired Youth ➝ Crazy Diamonds ➝ Taking control of the narrative with my debut novel Careless ➝ How 10 Orphans From eSwatini Helped Write A Prize-Winning Movie ➝ Vivaldi taught Venetian orphan girls – did they help write his music in return? ➝ Coram in literature ➝ Orphan's role in movie upsets adoption groups ➝ Back to Top

Authors O Mark Opitz ➝ Back to Top

Performing Arts Poet, musician, and author Gil Scott-Heron Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) born Gilbert in Chicago to singer Bobbie Scott-Heron and soccer player Giles Heron, was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. Not long after Gilbert’s birth, his parents separated and Gil was sent to live in Tennessee with his grandmother, Lillie Scott. Lillie Scott bought a piano and young Gil learnt how to play by ear. His grandmother also introduced him to the work of Langston Hughes. After his grandmother’s death, Gil moved to New York to live with his mother. At DeWitt Clinton high school in the Bronx, an English teacher was impressed by Gil’s writing ability and recommended him to receive a scholarship so he could attend Fieldston School, a private university preparatory school. Wanting to reach a wider audience, Scott-Heron recorded his first alum in 1970. External Website

Films/Videos Summerland 2004 Summerland is a TV series starring Lori Loughlin, Merrin Dungey, and Ryan Kwanten. Bradin, Nikki and Derrick are 3 kids from an average normal Kansas household. Their whole life is thrown upside-down when their parents are killed, and the children move from Kansas to California to live with their fashion designer aunt and her housemates. External Website

Children's Fiction The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries J.T. Williams 2022 Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761-1804) – who was adopted by a aristocratic English family - is one of two main characters in The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger (2022). This series of historical novels are written by children’s writer J.T. Williams and set in 18th century London. They are set around the imagined friendship of Dido Belle and Elizabeth Sancho, daughter of abolitionist, shopkeeper and writer Ignatius Sancho. Ignatius Sancho was orphaned at age 2, taken to England from New Granada and “given” to 3 sisters with whom he stayed for 18 years. External Website

Comics, Comic books & Graphic Novels Nubia: Real One Written by L.L. McKinney; illustrated by Robyn Smith. 2021 Nubia: Real One (2021) Written by L.L. McKinney and illustrated by Robyn Smith. Young Adult Graphic Novel. Nubia has always been a little bit different. As a baby she showcased Amazonian-like strength by pushing over a tree to rescue her neighbour's cat. But despite her having similar abilities, the world has no problem telling her that she's no Wonder Woman but in fact she is, Wonder Woman's twin sister. And even if she were, they wouldn't want her. Every time she comes to the rescue, she's reminded of how people see her: as a threat. Her moms do their best to keep her safe, but Nubia can't deny the fire within her, even if she's a little awkward about it sometimes. Even if it means people assume the worst. When Nubia s best friend, Quisha, is threatened by a boy who thinks he owns the town, Nubia will risk it all her safety, her home, and her crush on that cute kid in English class to become the hero society tells her she isn't. From the witty and powerful voice behind A Blade So Black, and with endearing and expressive art by Robyn Smith, comes a vital story for today about equality, identity, and kicking it with your squad. External Website

Films/Videos Motherless Children 2019 Motherless Children performed by Eric Clapton. Producer: Tom Dowd Arranger, Work Arranger: Carl Radle Arranger, Work Arranger: Eric Clapton Composer Lyricist: Blind Willie Johnson. External Website

Authors G Finding Neverland ➝ Back to Top