Posted on 25 September 2012 by Sally Orpin
Tags: ACT, care leaver, child migrants, child protection, Forgotten Australians, Former Child Migrants, history, inquiry, NSW, queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, updates, Victoria, Western Australia
Last week we circulated the September newsletter for the Find & Connect web resource. Featuring ‘snapshots’ from our state-based historians with updates from the various state and territory websites, as well as an article about the newly launched Find & Connect support services from Sarah Green our Client Liaison Officer …
Posted on 21 May 2012 by Sally Orpin
Tags: child migrants, Former Child Migrants, history, museums, Western Australia
On their own, an exhibition that chronicles the story of British Child Migrants sent to Australia between the 1860s and 1960s, opened in the WA Maritime Museum on Saturday 19 May.
The traveling exhibition, a collaboration between the Australian National Maritime Museum and National Museums Liverpool UK, will run in WA …