Getting a context ...... useful websites

Now I am always on the lookout for more ways to understand the period during which the British Home Children policy operated and in particular the background to what was happening to the less fortunate young people.

So I was pleased when the December edition of WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? magazine, ran a feature on useful websites which provide information about both destitute children and those who slipped into crime.

So here are the sites. Hidden lives Revealed, www.hiddenlives.org.uk  The Children’s Society helped about 22,500 children between its foundation in 1881 and the end of the First World War, and this is a virtual archive of the treatment of poor and disadvantaged children during the period.

Old Baily Online, www.oldbaileyonline.org this free and comprehensive source has transcribed material from 197,745 criminal cases.

Dictionary of Victorian London, www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm which is an illustrated encyclopaedia of sources covering the social history of Victorian England.

And of course  Getting down and dusty http://togethertrustarchive.blogspot.co.uk/ which features regular stories from the archives of the Manchester & Salford Boys’ and Girls’ Refuges, now the Together Trust.

Picture; courtesy of the Together Trust