Lost children of the Empire
Lost children of the Empire
Between 1860 and 1930 some 130,000 children were shipped off to parts of the British Empire and forgotten. It was a cheap way of emptying homes and populating the colonies. Many were subjected to cruelty, with names changed, records withheld and brought up to believe that they were orphans. But the shocking part of the story is that it did not end in the 1930s. After World War II, some 10,000 children were transported to Australia with the last batch going as late as 1967. The book looks at the remarkable story of the Child Migrants Trust set up in 1987 to trace relations and help both sides of the family come to terms with what happened. This book contains passages describing sexual violence towards children. There is a warning within the recording before the most violent of these. .
Book info |
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| Author | Bean, P. |
| Reader | Langford Di |
| Contributors | Melville, Joy, |
| Language | eng |
| Duration | 8 h 26 min |
| Publication info | Royal National Institute for the Blind. |
| Physical description | talking book Daisy 2.02 (8 h 26 min) |
| Original publication info | Unwin Hyman 1989. 0044403585. |
| Keywords | barn utnyttjande barnets ställning historia kolonialism kolonialismi kolonier Storbritannien lapsen asema lapset hyväksikäyttö siirtomaat Iso-Britannia |