Author: Chris Jeffery
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136224866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This study investigates the motives for the establishment of the Fairbridge child migration scheme, examines its history in Australia and Canada, and outlines the experiences of many of the former child migrants.
Fairbridge
Author: Chris Jeffery
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136224866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This study investigates the motives for the establishment of the Fairbridge child migration scheme, examines its history in Australia and Canada, and outlines the experiences of many of the former child migrants.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136224866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This study investigates the motives for the establishment of the Fairbridge child migration scheme, examines its history in Australia and Canada, and outlines the experiences of many of the former child migrants.
Fairbridge Kid
Author: John Lane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The South African Library
Author: C. Pama
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
South African libraries
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Forgotten Children
Author: David Hill
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1760638773
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in Sussex - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in Australia where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. David was lucky - his mother was able to follow him out to Australia - but for most children, the reality was shockingly different. From 1938 to 1974 thousands of parents were persuaded to sign over legal guardianship of their children to Fairbridge to solve the problem of child poverty in Britain while populating the colony. Now many of those children have decided to speak out. Physical and sexual abuse was not uncommon. Loneliness was rife. Food was often inedible. The standard of education was appalling. Here, for the first time, is the story of the lives of the Fairbridge children, from the bizarre luxury of the voyage out to Australia to the harsh reality of the first days there; from the crushing daily routine to stolen moments of freedom and the struggle that defined life after leaving the school. This remarkable book is both a tribute to the children who were betrayed by an ideal that went terribly awry and a fascinating account of an extraordinary episode in British history.
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1760638773
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in Sussex - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in Australia where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. David was lucky - his mother was able to follow him out to Australia - but for most children, the reality was shockingly different. From 1938 to 1974 thousands of parents were persuaded to sign over legal guardianship of their children to Fairbridge to solve the problem of child poverty in Britain while populating the colony. Now many of those children have decided to speak out. Physical and sexual abuse was not uncommon. Loneliness was rife. Food was often inedible. The standard of education was appalling. Here, for the first time, is the story of the lives of the Fairbridge children, from the bizarre luxury of the voyage out to Australia to the harsh reality of the first days there; from the crushing daily routine to stolen moments of freedom and the struggle that defined life after leaving the school. This remarkable book is both a tribute to the children who were betrayed by an ideal that went terribly awry and a fascinating account of an extraordinary episode in British history.
Great Russian Fair
Author: Anne L Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349206407
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349206407
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Geochemistry and Environmental Sciences
Author: Rhodes Whitmore Fairbridge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
Book Description
"Geochemistry is coupled with Environmental Science in this volume because it is the chemical pollution of our planet's air and water that is claiming the attention of many geologists and chemists today."--Preface.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
Book Description
"Geochemistry is coupled with Environmental Science in this volume because it is the chemical pollution of our planet's air and water that is claiming the attention of many geologists and chemists today."--Preface.
The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures
Author: Archie L. Dick
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442695080
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have been hidden until now for political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles. By looking to records from a slave lodge, women's associations, army education units, universities, courts, libraries, prison departments, and political groups, Archie Dick exposes the key works of fiction and non-fiction, magazines, and newspapers that were read and discussed by political activists and prisoners. Uncovering the book and library schemes that elites used to regulate reading, Dick exposes incidences of intellectual fraud, book theft, censorship, and book burning. Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community across South Africa's class and racial barriers.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442695080
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have been hidden until now for political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles. By looking to records from a slave lodge, women's associations, army education units, universities, courts, libraries, prison departments, and political groups, Archie Dick exposes the key works of fiction and non-fiction, magazines, and newspapers that were read and discussed by political activists and prisoners. Uncovering the book and library schemes that elites used to regulate reading, Dick exposes incidences of intellectual fraud, book theft, censorship, and book burning. Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community across South Africa's class and racial barriers.
The Butterfly House
Author: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776670396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Fans of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street will love Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's satirical novel The Butterfly House. The story is a hilarious send-up of the preposterous posturing and one-upmanship that runs amok among the members of a women's club in early-twentieth-century New Jersey.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776670396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Fans of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street will love Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's satirical novel The Butterfly House. The story is a hilarious send-up of the preposterous posturing and one-upmanship that runs amok among the members of a women's club in early-twentieth-century New Jersey.
Books for All
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description