Untold Stories Lecture: Mike Stein – A History from Below, The Rights Movement of Young People in Care in England
This lecture tells the story of the different groups that made up the beginning of the movement for change in…
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Category: Care Experienced History
Untold Stories Lecture: Claudia Soares – A Home from Home, Children and social care in the early 18th and 19th Centuries
Using care records and personal correspondence, this lecture offers new insights into how children gave meaning to their experiences of…
Untold Stories Lecture: Kate Gibson – Care, Race and Illegitimacy in Eighteenth Century Britain
In the late 18th century, thousands of children were born to Indian women and white British men sent to expand…
Untold Stories Lecture: Henry Wuga MBE – Kindertransported
This lecture features a short screening followed by a conversation with Henry Wuga MBE who came to Scotland on the…
Children’s Experiences of State Removal from their Families in the Late Nineteenth Century
Annie Skinner explores the experiences of Care Experienced people in Waifs and Strays Society (WSS) (now The Children’s Society) during…
Sharing the Untold Stories of Care
WC?S announces the return of Care Experienced History Month for 2022, focusing on a lecture series about the Untold Stories…
The Edinburgh Orphan Hospital
Find out how Edinburgh Waverly train station and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art were the sites of The…
Untold Stories Lecture: Dr. Christine Whyte – ‘Her Affecting Story’
This lecture tells the story of the children that became de facto wards of the British state between 1808 and…
Untold Stories Lecture: Dr. Chrisine Whyte – African Mission Children in Scotland in the 19th Century
Throughout the 19th century, Scottish missionaries ‘redeemed’ African children from the areas around mission stations. These children, often informally ‘adopted’…
Untold Stories Lecture: Dr. Mariela Neagu – Voices from the Silent Cradles – Life Histories of Romania’s Care Experienced Children
This lecture explores the life histories of Romanian Care Experienced people during the 1990s, specifically focusing on institutionalization policy in…