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Book Night and day  ed  by dr  Barnardo

Download or read book Night and day ed by dr Barnardo written by Doctor Barnardo's homes and published by . This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sabbath school magazine  ed  by W  Keddie

Download or read book The Sabbath school magazine ed by W Keddie written by Glasgow sabbath school union and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Home Children Bundle

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  • Author : Mary Pettit
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 2013-12-26
  • ISBN : 1459727967
  • Pages : 933 pages

Download or read book Home Children Bundle written by Mary Pettit and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony’s farm-labour shortage. They were known as the "home children," and they were lonely and frightened youngsters to whom a new life in Canada meant only hardship and abuse. This bundle of titles tells the entire story from many angles and in its many facets, from historical recounting, to genealogical information, to the personal story one such child, Mary Janeway. Includes: The Golden Bridge The Little Immigrants Mary Janeway Nation Builders Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?

Book Imagined Orphans

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  • Author : Lydia Murdoch
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0813537223
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Imagined Orphans written by Lydia Murdoch and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on the discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions - a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers' efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or "no-good" parents fed upon the poor's increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public's growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children. With a critical eye to social issues of the period, Murdoch urges readers to reconsider the complex situations of families living in poverty."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Little Immigrants

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  • Author : Kenneth Bagnell
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 2001-11-01
  • ISBN : 155488022X
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book The Little Immigrants written by Kenneth Bagnell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Immigrants is a tale of compassion and courage and a vivid account of a deep and moving part of Canadian heritage. In the early years after Confederation, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony's farm-labour shortage. They were known as the "home children," and they were lonely and frightened youngsters to whom a new life in Canada meant only hardship and abuse. This is an extraordinary but almost forgotten odyssey that the Calgary Herald has called, "One of the finest pieces of Canadian social history ever to be written." Kenneth Bagnell tells "an affecting tale of Dickensian pathos" (Vancouver Sun) that is "excellent ... well organized, logical, clearly written, [and] suspenseful" (The Edmonton Journal).

Book Night and Day

Download or read book Night and Day written by Dr Barnardo's Homes and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Focus

Download or read book The Politics of Focus written by Lindsay Smith and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the meanings of photographic 19th century photographic discourse, both visual and verbal, as it related to the status and image of women and children. Of particular importance to the author is how the work of women photographers addressed issues of early feminism. In the course of the book she attempts to use the material to help form the basis of a new critical theory of photography which can take a place next to the more mature theory of film. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Elizabeth Stride and Jack the Ripper

Download or read book Elizabeth Stride and Jack the Ripper written by Dave Yost and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As soon as the newspapers hit the streets on October 1, 1888, Elizabeth Stride became world renowned as the third victim of Jack the Ripper. Reportedly, Stride was killed only an hour before fellow victim Catherine Eddowes, becoming a key player in the legendary "double event" of Jack the Ripper's brief but notorious killing career. This book tells the complete life story of Elisabeth Gustafsdotter, beginning with her birth in Sweden during the winter of 1843. The author describes Stride's reported "habitual drunkenness," her brief career as a prostitute, and the public aftermath of her untimely death. Period photos and sketches are included throughout the work, along with several appendices and an index.

Book Happiest Days

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  • Author : Jeffrey Richards
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780719018794
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Happiest Days written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slumming

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  • Author : Seth Koven
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2006-07-24
  • ISBN : 1400843588
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Slumming written by Seth Koven and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality. The slums of late-Victorian London became synonymous with all that was wrong with industrial capitalist society. But for philanthropic men and women eager to free themselves from the starched conventions of bourgeois respectability and domesticity, slums were also places of personal liberation and experimentation. Slumming allowed them to act on their irresistible "attraction of repulsion" for the poor and permitted them, with society's approval, to get dirty and express their own "dirty" desires for intimacy with slum dwellers and, sometimes, with one another. Slumming elucidates the histories of a wide range of preoccupations about poverty and urban life, altruism and sexuality that remain central in Anglo-American culture, including the ethics of undercover investigative reporting, the connections between cross-class sympathy and same-sex desire, and the intermingling of the wish to rescue the poor with the impulse to eroticize and sexually exploit them. By revealing the extent to which politics and erotics, social and sexual categories overflowed their boundaries and transformed one another, Koven recaptures the ethical dilemmas that men and women confronted--and continue to confront--in trying to "love thy neighbor as thyself."

Book The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain

Download or read book The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain written by Peter Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain analyses the ideas and practices that underpinned the age of mass child removal. This era emerged from growing criticisms across the world of 'dangerous' parents and the developing belief in the nineteenth century that the state could provide superior guardianship to 'unfit' parents. In the late nineteenth century, the juvenile-court movement led the way in forging a new and more efficient system of child removal that severely curtailed the previously highly protected sovereignty of guardians deemed dangerous. This transnational movement rapidly established courts across the world and used them to train the personnel and create the systems that frequently lay behind mass child removal. Spaniards formed a significant part of this transnational movement and the country's juvenile courts became involved in the three main areas of removal that characterize the age: the taking of children from poor families, from families displaced by war, and from political opponents. The study of Spanish case files reveals much about how the removal process worked in practice across time and across democratic regimes and dictatorships. These cases also afford an insight into the rich array of child-removal practices that lay between the poles of coercion and victimhood. Accordingly, the study offers a history of some of most marginalized parents and children and recaptures their voice, agency, and experience. Peter Anderson also analyses the removal of tens of thousands of children from General Franco's political opponents, sometimes referred to as the lost children of Francoism, through the history and practice of the juvenile courts.

Book The Church of Scotland Home and Foreign Mission Record

Download or read book The Church of Scotland Home and Foreign Mission Record written by Church of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Remembering Child Migration

Download or read book Remembering Child Migration written by Gordon Lynch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities and religious orders in the United States and the United Kingdom. Intended as humanitarian initiatives to save children from social and moral harm and to build them up as national and imperial citizens, these schemes have in many cases since become the focus of public censure, apology and sometimes financial redress. Remembering Child Migration is the first book to examine both the American 'orphan train' programmes and Britain's child migration schemes to its imperial colonies. Setting their work in historical context, it discusses their assumptions, methods and effects on the lives of those they claimed to help. Rather than seeing them as reflecting conventional child-care practice of their time, the book demonstrates that they were subject to criticism for much of the period in which they operated. Noting similarities between the American 'orphan trains' and early British migration schemes to Canada, it also shows how later British child migration schemes to Australia constituted a reversal of what had been understood to be good practice in the late Victorian period. At its heart, the book considers how welfare interventions motivated by humanitarian piety came to have such harmful effects in the lives of many child migrants. By examining how strong moral motivations can deflect critical reflection, legitimise power and build unwarranted bonds of trust, it explores the promise and risks of humanitarian sentiment.

Book The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals  1824 1900

Download or read book The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals 1824 1900 written by Michael Wolff and published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals

Book Uprooted

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  • Author : Roy Parker
  • Publisher : Policy Press
  • Release : 2008-01-24
  • ISBN : 1847420141
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Uprooted written by Roy Parker and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were some 80,000 British children (typically between the ages of 10 and 14) sent to Canada between 1867 and 1915? What happened to them? And what determined who and how many went? Answers are to be found in the many opposing interests that were involved. These included those of the respective governments; voluntary organisations and entrepreneurial individuals; Canadian farmers who sought cheap labour; the churches; the trade unions, and many others. The consequences, of course, were borne by the children. Many suffered from profound loneliness; frequent moves, and a justifiable sense that they had been abandoned. Some were abused and the girls especially were vulnerable to sexual exploitation. All were first and foremost cheap or free labour.What judgement should be passed upon this remarkable chapter in the treatment of poor children, and what lessons does it offer to those who grapple with today's problems of child welfare? How might their actions be judged a 100 years from now?

Book The new biblical guide  ed  by J  Urquhart  Popular ed

Download or read book The new biblical guide ed by J Urquhart Popular ed written by rev John Urquhart and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: