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Transfiguring Adoption

On the Missed Crimean Connection between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

Literary Hub (Tolstoy)

How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

Literary Hub (5)

Create Foundation

Orphans in fiction

British Library

Find & Connect

Find & Connect

Libraries Tasmania

Stolen Generations Testimonies

Stolen Generations' Testimonies

Children in care need long-term support, not punishment | David Akinsanya

David Akinsanya (Children in Care)

Searching for my slave roots

Malik Al Nasir

Lockdown Poetry

Amberleigh Care

10 Screwed Up Movie Orphans

Spout

Ronnie Archer-Morgan shares his fostering story

Ronnie Archer-Morgan

Orphans in Literature

Dave Astor

Theodore's story - Coram Story #realstoriesofcare

Theodore Barrow

Success Stories and Sad Statistics?

Wayne Biffa

Eleanor and George’s story – love at the Foundling Hospital

Janette Bright

7 Novels about Orphans

Elizabeth Brooks

Nobody's Child by GJ Urquhart – Book Review. Leeds care home memoir.

Sandra Callard

Orphans & Care Experience in Literature

Rosie Canning

Taking control of the narrative with my debut novel Careless

Kirsty Capes

How 10 Orphans From eSwatini Helped Write A Prize-Winning Movie

Rachel Cohen

Vivaldi taught Venetian orphan girls – did they help write his music in return?

Harriet Constable

Charlie Chaplin and the story of care

Coram (Charlie Chaplin)

Orphan's role in movie upsets adoption groups

David Crary

A ladder to the stars: Ian Dickson’s reflections on 70 years of the care system

Ian Dickson

Care Collective Zine - Issue 1.pdf

Lys Eden

Challenging the Over-Representation of Care Experienced Women in Prison

Fitzpatrick.C., Hunter. K

The Children’s rights Movement and the Charity sector.

Sean Geoghegan

Book Review: That Reminds Me

Barbara Grant

Examining Rita Mae Brown’s “Rubyfruit Jungle”

Anna J Haynes

How one stray dog changed my life forever

Ishbel Holmes

Delma Hughes: I grew up in a world without parents

Delma Hughes

Almost half of children in care fear stigma

Louise Hunt

A Conversation with Daniel Ingram-Brown

Daniel Ingram-Brown

Jackie Kay on putting her adoption on stage – and getting a pay rise for her successor

Jackie Kay

Blog: Stigma and the care experience

Denisha Killoh

Hariet Martineau

Literary Hub (Martineau)

Your Sexuality Is the Least Interesting Thing About You: Rita Mae Brown on RubyFruit Jungle's Rerelease

Llana Masad

Tokyo Olympics: 'I just wanted a normal life' - Ireland's McFerran recalls childhood in foster care with BBC Sport NI's Nigel Ringland

Ayeisha McFerran

Jenni Fagan's Ootlin

Dee Michell

The Orphanage' ('Parwareshgah'): Film Review | Cannes 2019

Jordan Mintzer

I was one of Britain's last foundlings

Joanna Moorhead

The 430 Books in Marilyn Monroe’s Library: How Many Have You Read?

Open Culture

How damaging are stories of damage?

Kenny Murray

A Moment in Care

Emma Norry

Neil Morrissey's rags to riches tale of growing up in Stoke-on-Trent care home

Hayley Parker

I wasn't told why I was taken into care. For years I thought it was my fault

Kerrie Portman

Drawing on Childhood: New exhibition examines why so many of our most cherished fictional heroes are orphans | The Independent

Etan Smallman

‘12 Mighty Orphans’ film to premiere in Fort Worth, TX in 2020 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Stefan Stevenson

Filming The One Percent

The One Percent

I wanted to write about a care system that didn’t care very much': Kit de Waal on My Name Is Leon

Kit de Waal

Who We Are

Who Cares Scotland

Logan Steiner on Learning Life Lessons from Anne of Green Gables

Literary Hub (4)

Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings.

The Strange Myth of Romulus and Remus, The Founders of Rome

History Defined

The Royal Caledonian Education Trust

The Royal Caledonian Education Trust

GOM Central

Elm Place

Care Experience Conference

Care Experience Conference

Life story books and later life letters

AOM (Australian Orphanage Museum)

CLAN

I was a child in care. We needed love, not chemicals | David Akinsanya

David Akinsanya

Ploughshares at Emerson College

Kelly Amber

An open letter to Long Lost Family from an adoptee

Anon

The Best Movies About Orphans

Anon

CELCIS blog on superheroes from the care system

Charlotte Armitage

Lilian Bader: The First Black Woman to join the RAF

Lillian Bader

Orphans | film by Pakula [1987]

Michael Barson

“America’s Literary Giant.” On the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe in Vietnam

Literary Hub (Nguyễn Bình )

Mary's story

Janette Bright

John Brownlow's story

John Brownlow

Crazy Diamonds

Rosie Canning

A Portrait Of Care (@aportraitofcare) • Instagram photos and videos

Rosie Canning

I’ve Been In A Bad Mood

Chris Chmielewski

Billy Connolly: ‘I’ve been scared my whole life’

Billy Connolly

Who was Thomas Coram?

Thomas Coram

Henry Fielding, Tom Jones and care

Amy Cotterill

Teenage Tales: Sneaking Looks In Sexy Books

Emily Danforth

That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu review – a fresh and powerful debut

Michael Donkor

A Hidden Intersectionality: Care Experience, Disability

Lys Eden; Jamie Crabb

Whatever happened to the little girl who played Annie?

Lisa Flowers

‘Trailblazer’ in the rights movement for children in care. Television Director, Screen writer.

Sean Geoghegan

There's a lot of stigma': why do so few care leavers go to university? | Universities | The Guardian

Rachel Hall

The Curious Fate of Care Leavers in Crime Fiction

Sarah Hilary

The life-changing power of a street dog named Lucy

Ishbel Holmes

The Queen's Gambit is a striking study of female genius, and the drama of the year

Sarah Hughes

Most Popular Orphan Girl Movies and TV Shows

IMDb

Finding hope. An imperfect journey to growth and happiness

Leah Elizabeth

I felt a strange grief when I found my birth mother': Jackie Kay on The Adoption Papers

Jackie Kay

The Uses of Orphans

Alison Kinney

"Just Annie"

Kristen Martin

12 Best Movies About Orphans

Biplab Mazumder

A Lesson in Motherhood

Paula McLain

DrDee-ThinkingOutLoud

Dee Michell

"Intentional Neglect." On the Creation of Nationalized Child Protection in Victorian England

Lit Hub (Montgomery)

In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature:

Literary Hub (Bradford Morrow)

Comment: Is ‘lived experience’ a change-maker or ball and chain?

Kenny Murray

My name is Kenny and I love animals

Kenny Murray

How Being Privately Fostered In White Families Impacted These People's Lives And Identities

Ade Onibada

Children in care are not just numbers: we must challenge the stigma

Jimmy Paul

Neil Morrissey revisits his children's home roots

Raekha Prasad

On Killing Charles Dickens

Zadie Smith

The Meaning of Maggie in Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif'

Catherine Sustana et al.

Alan Turing (1912-1954) - noted Computer Scientist and Mathematician

Alan Turing

The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families | The New Yorker

Michael Waters

‘Dream come true’: Orphans evacuated to Australia in perilous journey through Afghanistan

Rashida Yosufzai

Doctor Who: The Timeless Children or Dr Who was a foundling

More than our childhoods

More than our childhoods

John Fashanu

Child Migrant Trust

Child Migrant Trust

National Aged and Community Care Roundtable for Forgotten Australians

National Aged and Community Care Roundtable for Forgotten Australians

The Wizardry of Boz

Literary Hub (3)

Care Experienced History Month

Care Experienced History Month

I left care at 15 and soon went to borstal. Young people can’t just be abandoned | David Akinsanya

David Akinsanya (Left care at 15)

Gil Scott-Heron saved my life

Malik Al Nasir

Category:Fictional orphans

Anon

Orphan Stories | Encyclopedia.com

Anon

Films about orphans

Anon

What is it really like being a Care Experienced Person?

Charlotte Armitage

Care leavers deserve to be seen for their talents

Lucy Barnes

Floella Benjamin (blog)

Floella Benjamin

John’s story – one of the first foundlings

Janette Bright

Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Determinism and Stigma...

Jack Brookes

CELCIS Reach - article on the creative workshops run by Inspired Youth

CELCIS

The PhD question…

Rosie Canning

A Conversation about Tracy Beaker...

Rosie Canning

Movies

Christian Alliance for Orphans

"Invasion is a Structure Not an Event"

Lit Hub (Joseph Conrad)

Coram in literature

Coram (Literature)

Her name was Jean: International Women's Day 2021

Jamie Crabb

Unbelievable review – grimly credible story of trauma, power and injustice

Hannah Daviies

Mercy's story (Coram)

Mercy

Kirsty Capes | 'It’s important to have stories about the care experience that are positive' | The Bookseller

Charlotte Eyre

The True Story Behind the Netflix Series 'Unbelievable'

Mahita Gajanan

Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen to join Luke Wilson in upcoming Fort Worth film ’12 Mighty Orphans'

Michael Granberry

Are care leavers really more likely to go to prison than university? – ExChange

Neil Harrison

When Ishbel met Lucy

Bradt Holmes Guides et al.

From the first admissions: How care has changed in 280 years

Carol Homden

It was lonely growing up in care – but I felt even more isolated after I left | Fostering | The Guardian

Louise Hughes

A digital archive of care experienced people in fiction, on screen and in real life

IMO

Marguerita Moorcroft obituary

Ruth Jampel

Growing up in care

Áine Kelly

Care leavers met with Jacqueline Wilson to debate the true reality of care

Eve Livingston

A Reflection on a long career in Social Work

Ruth Martin

Hidden women of history: 'how 'lady swindler' Alexandrina Askew triumphed over the convict stain

Janet McCalman

Sugarcane London: ‘This is all comfort food’ – restaurant review

Tarell Mcintosh

Real Life Super Heroes

Dee Michell

Literary Hub

Liz Moore

Orphans in Fiction - The British Library

John Mullan

In defence of second chances

Kenneth Muray

Character Type: Orphan

Scott Myers

How the Mainstream Media Sees Us

Shalita O’Neale

Benjamin Perks: Blogsite

Benjamin Perks

Nicky Campbell: "There was a life long whisper: 'my mother didn't want me'"

Georgia Shepheard

Author of ‘Hackney Child’ on absent parents, care homes, and Mother’s Day

Cachella Smith

Bridgeman Blog

Bridgeman Team

New portrait of Queen Victoria's African goddaughter unveiled

Hannah Uzor

Who Cares? Scotland project wins national campaign award

Who Cares Scotland

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