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Academic Books & Book Chapters

Silent System: Forgotten Australians the Institutionalisation of Women and Children

Paul Ashton & Jacqueline Z Wilson (Editors

The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

John Boswell

Parragirls: Reimagining Parramatta Girls Home through art and memory

Bonney Djuric

Street urchins, sociopaths and degenerates: orphans of late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction

William David Floyd

Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women

Jenny Hartley

Dickens The Orphan Condition

Baruch Hochman; Ilja Wachs

The magic of Harry Potter for children in care

Sarah Mokrzycki

The Scars Remain: A Long History of Forgotten Australians and Children's Institutions

Nell Musgrove

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body

Cheryl L Nixon

Who Cares?: Young People in Care Speak Out

Raissa Page, G A Clark (editors

Orphan texts: Victorian orphans, culture and empire

Laura Peters

The Stolen Generations. The removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969

Peter Read

Orphans: A History

Jeremy Seabrook

Behind Closed Doors: Hidden Histories of Children Committed to Care in the Late Nineteenth Century (1882-1899)

Annie Skinner

What Works for Young People Leaving Care?

Mike Stein

Re-reading Orphanhood

Diane Warren and Laura Peters (Editors)

Transmedia Harry Potter: Essays on Storytelling Across Platforms

Christopher E Bell

Voices of the Lost Children of Greece: Oral Histories of Cold War International Adoption

Mary Cardaras (Editor)

Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory

Kate Douglas

Convict Orphans

Lucy Frost

Collective Revenge: Challenging the Individualist Victim-Avenger in Death Proof, Sleepers, and Mystic River

Claire Henry

UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970: A Study in Policy Failure

Gordon Lynch

Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship in London

Lydia Murdoch

Voices from the Silent Cradles - Life Histories of Romania’s Looked-After Children

Mariela Neagu

Imagining Adoption.

Marianne Novy (Editor)

Jacqueline Wilson (New Casebooks)

Lucy Pearson

Enuring Stuggle: St Mary's Tardun Farm School

David Plowman

The Children of Looked After Children: Outcomes, Experiences and Ensuring Meaningful Support to Young Parents In and Leaving Care

Louise Roberts

Orphans Real and Imaginary

Eileen Simpson

A Home from Home? Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1870-1920

Claudia Soares

Leaving care (out of print)

Mike Stein et al

Orphans of Empire. The fate of London's foundlings

Helen Berry

Goodna Girls

Adele Chenowyth

Cultural, autobiographical and absent memories of orphanhood

Delyth Edwards

The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century

Gymnich, Marion; Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara; Sedlmayr, Gerold.

Children's Homes. A History of Institutional Care for Britain's Young

Peter Higginbotham

Just Like a Family? Writing to Heal—The Emergence of Foster Care in Literature'.

Michell et al.

After the orphanage: life beyond the children's home

Murray et al

Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929

Claudia Nelson

Visibly Invisible - The tale of a Black Female Social Worker

Rebecca Olayinka

Orphans of the Living: Growing Up in Care in Twentieth-Century Australia

Joanna Penglase

The Orphan: A Journey to Wholeness

Audrey Punnett

Raising Government Children

Catherine Rymph

Relinquished

Gretchen Sisson

Care Less Lives - The story of the rights movement of young people in care

Stein et al

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo?

Gonda Van Steen

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