This will I think be the shortest blog I have written.
It points up the simple lack of information in Britain about British Home Children.
Now I have known there is very little written about BHC over here, and while there is a recognition of what happened to British children sent to Australia, the early Canadian migrations are all but unknown.
In the case of Australia the work of Margaret Humphreys has provided a history for all those Australians who grew up with no knowledge of a family in Britain or the circumstances which led to them being sent to Australia. Her book Empty Cradles which became the film Oranges and Sunshine has done much to make us aware of that policy which was pursued till the 1970s.
But a search of the internet has revealed little about what might be going on over here in relation to Canadian BHC.
I am aware of individuals but not of British groups and so after many years or blogging about BHC it is time to set up a social media group which will compliment an earlier one established eight years ago.
British Home Children ....... the story from Britain was set up on April 13th of this year on facebook, has been posted on to other sites that I belong to, but really needs to be picked up by any one who reads the blog and can post circulate amongst friends, colleagues at work or any of the other social networks.
Picture; On the steps of Manchester Town Hall, 1897, courtesy of The Together Trust, https://www.togethertrust.org.uk/
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| Leaving Manchester for Canada in 1897, on the Town Hall steps |
Now I have known there is very little written about BHC over here, and while there is a recognition of what happened to British children sent to Australia, the early Canadian migrations are all but unknown.
In the case of Australia the work of Margaret Humphreys has provided a history for all those Australians who grew up with no knowledge of a family in Britain or the circumstances which led to them being sent to Australia. Her book Empty Cradles which became the film Oranges and Sunshine has done much to make us aware of that policy which was pursued till the 1970s.
But a search of the internet has revealed little about what might be going on over here in relation to Canadian BHC.
I am aware of individuals but not of British groups and so after many years or blogging about BHC it is time to set up a social media group which will compliment an earlier one established eight years ago.
British Home Children ....... the story from Britain was set up on April 13th of this year on facebook, has been posted on to other sites that I belong to, but really needs to be picked up by any one who reads the blog and can post circulate amongst friends, colleagues at work or any of the other social networks.
Picture; On the steps of Manchester Town Hall, 1897, courtesy of The Together Trust, https://www.togethertrust.org.uk/
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