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Home Bird by Fran Hill
Review by Dr Dee Michell Fran Hill’s dialogue driven novel, Home Bird , is a delight - well written, funny, uplifting. Home Bird by Fran...
Jan 203 min read
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Carrie Steele Logan (1829-1900)
Carrie Steele Logan (1829 – November 3, 1900) was an American philanthropist and founder of the Colored [sic] Orphanage of Atlanta , the...
Dec 6, 20241 min read
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The First Care Experienced Activist?
Hannah Brown (1866-1973) Care Experience & Culture recently added a new genre featuring ‘ Activists ’ and are wondering if Hannah Brown...
Dec 5, 20246 min read
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Care Experienced Activists
Care Experience & Culture are adding a new genre an ‘ Activists ’ section and we’re Introducing Care Experienced Activist Paris...
Jul 22, 20249 min read
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The Quiet You Carry by Nikki Barthelmess
Hi, I’m Liam, today's book reviewer, and a 26-year-old working at a property law firm. Growing up in foster and kinship care has made me...
Jun 27, 20243 min read
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Care Experienced Activists
Care Experience & Culture are adding a new genre an ‘Activists’ section and first off we’re Introducing Care Experienced Activist...
May 30, 20244 min read
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Historical Perspectives on the Stigma of Children in Care
By Dr. Annie Skinner During the latter decades of the nineteenth-century, poor families faced with crises due to poverty, ill-health or...
Jul 30, 202311 min read
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Cuckoo in the Nest by Fran Hill
Review by Carol Sampson Fran Hill’s experiences in foster care have often influenced her writing. Cuckoo in the Nest arose from her...
Jun 15, 20233 min read
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The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Dr Dee Michell reflects on The Bone People. In 1965, Irish writer John McGahern’s novel , The Dark , was banned in Ireland because of...
Jan 18, 20236 min read
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Foundling Book Club Event
Care Experience & Culture Foundling Book Club Event: Via Zoom 11th November 2022 and live at the Foundling Museum , London 11am UK...
Oct 24, 20222 min read
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Diversity & Children's Fiction
Care Experience & Culture book club event: Via Zoom 25th June 2022 10am UK time / 6.30pm Adelaide / 7.00pm Melbourne Email:...
Jun 14, 20222 min read
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Examining the Past and Challenging the Future
Lindsay Bamfield looks back as well as reflecting on the last couple of Care Experience & Culture book club events Perhaps the reason one...
May 20, 20224 min read
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What about the 84%?
Dr. Josie Pearse asks: Why is the murderer (almost) always adopted? I'm talking about a stereotype that I began to notice many many years...
Apr 18, 20226 min read
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Care Experienced History Month
Care Experienced History Month takes place in April every year. Care Experienced people have been a part of societies across the world...
Feb 13, 20222 min read
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Book Club
Care Experience & Culture book club event: Monday 6th December 10am UK / 9pm Australia Sarah Hilary will be discussing her latest novel...
Nov 29, 20212 min read
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A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
Dr Dee Michell reflects on A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler, a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. A Whole Life ...
Nov 22, 20213 min read
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A Conversation With Malik Al Nasir
Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir’s profound coming of age memoir – the story of surviving physical and racial abuse and discovering a...
Nov 12, 202119 min read
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The Challenges of Writing Representations of Adoption in Fiction
Daniel Ingram Brown is an adoptive dad, author, educator and academic. He says, I have spent some time thinking about representations of...
Aug 20, 20218 min read
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Lockdown Poetry
Amberleigh Care (UK) has two locations which run as formal therapeutic communities for teenage boys: deliberately structured settings...
Jul 15, 20211 min read
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Careless by Kirsty Capes
Dr Dee Michell reflects on Careless, the new novel from Kirsty Capes It was wonderful to read Careless by Kirsty Capes. I’d had the book...
Jun 24, 20214 min read
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