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How Horseback Riding Helped Barbara Stanwyck Rise Above Hollywood Misogyny

Literary Hub

Kids Were Marched Everywhere. This was a Concentration Camp'

RolingStone

Meera Mistry

Meera Mistry

Who is Ronnie Archer Morgan?

Homes & Antiques

Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey

Restless

How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

Literary Hub

Former Cranbrook student says he was sexually abused at private Sydney boys' school

ABC News

Being homeless felt inevitable': after years in care, I was living in a tent. Who was to blame?

The Guardian

The Show Must Go On: On Billie Holiday's Last Live Performance

Literary Hub (Billie Holliday)

I'll never know where I'm from': plight of the adopted children of Bangladesh's Birangona women

Thaslima Begum, Rosie Swash

The Orphanage review – terrific tale of an Afghan teen in trouble

Peter Bradshaw

FamilyConnect

Family

Indian orphans weave award-winning movie magic

Sujoy Dhar

Barrister and Chair of Independent Enquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Ivor Frank

Alone in the world | The Spectator

Philip Hensher

ABC's Patricia Karvelas on her experience of Parliament's toxic 'sexist' culture and how a childhood tragedy shaped her.

Natasha Johnson

Alma's Not Normal review – this bleak, brilliant comedy is far from ordinary

Lucy Mangan

Smell like a woman, not a rose’: Chanel No. 5 100 years on, an iconic fragrance born from an orphanage

Gary Mortimer

Foster families who ignore race are participating in a pernicious form of racism

Derek Owusu

Katherine Rundell's top 10 orphans

Katherine Rundell

Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby

Lucy Wallis

The One Percent compilation

Inspired Youth

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: class prejudices, the convict stain and a corpse-bride

The Conversation

Simone Biles' scathing testimony was a warning about power and complicity

MSNBC

The care leaver who made a number one album

BBC News

Care leaver Kerry Littleford: 'I want to give opportunities to people who haven’t had them'

The Guardian

Who the hell is Edgar?' - a viral Eurovision song about Edgar Allan Poe evokes a strange history of mediums and creative possession

The Conversation

The people making a difference: the woman who created a community for fellow adult adoptees

The Guardian

Every one of us has a different story': a historic portrait of care system success

The Guardian

Orphans in Kids' Movies: Let's Stop Going There

Jeff Alexander

Christian Bale unveils plans to build 12 foster homes in California

Christian Bale

Ward of the State; The Gap in Ella Fitzgerald's Life

Nina Bernstein

The West African children brought up by white foster families in the English countryside

Symeon Brown

‘I lived in a state of terror’: Patricia Cornwell on childhood trauma, her new novel and the search for Bigfoot

The Guardian - Patricia Cornwell

Hutchinson Heinemann signs Fagan's 'extraordinary' memoir in two-book deal

Jenni Fagan

Denmark says sorry to children of failed experiment

Inuit Greenlander

I was taken into care at two years old – what really happened?

Kerry Hudson

"Malcolm Still Speaks." Ibram X. Kendi on George Breitman and the Enduring Legacy of Malcolm X.

Literary Hub (Malcolm X)

Seoul Searching

ABC News

Orphans Making It in the World

Noel Murray

Khelsi Price

Khelsi Price

Ellie Simmonds on finding her birth mother: ‘During this journey I cried so much’ by Emine Saner

Ellie Simmonds

BBC Teach - History KS3 / GCSE: Small Axe - Alex Wheatle and the Brixton Uprising

Alex Wheatle

I was a ward of the state. The horrors of the Parramatta Girls' Home were legendary

The Conversation (Parramatta)

Living in Adoption's Emotional Aftermath

The New Yorker

Intelligent women are dangerous, no?’ Samantha Morton on sexism, success and survival

The Guardian

How Superman Became a Christ-Like Figure in American Culture

Literary Hub

Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child

BBC News

Simone Biles becomes youngest living person to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

Independent

My mum has bipolar. My dad was a recovering alcoholic.' - Leeds City Council chief exec Tom Riordan on why we need to open up about mental illness

Yorkshire Evening Post

Angelina Jolie's casting game with Cambodian orphans sparks outrage

Harriet Alexander

The love that helped me beat hell of foster care

Paul Barber (actor)

When Lucy O'Flaherty took up shoemaking she didn't know it was part of her heritage

Fiona Blackwood

After I was taken off my birth parents, my foster carers became the family I needed

Kirsty Capes

The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson review – an elegant retelling of Shakespeare

Sarah Crown

America's Riches School Serves Low-Income Kids.

Propublica

Care Leavers Facing ‘Vile’ Assessments in Postcode Lottery when Becoming Mothers

Sophia Alexandra Hall

Care Experienced student behind new John Lewis Partnership brand: Made with Care

John Lewis

An evening with your life your story

Amanda Knowles

Meet Karen Menzies, Australia's first Indigenous Matilda

Karen Menzies

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's last novel

The Conversation (Marquez)

Tasmania's connection to author Joseph Conrad remembered on anniversary of his death

Carol Raabus

Peter Mullan’s Orphans find a new ‘home’

Kenny Smith

Prince Philip: A turbulent childhood stalked by exile, mental illness and death

Prince Philip

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