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From mental hygiene to community mental health: psychiatrists and Victorian public administration from the 1940s to 1990s

  • February 26, 2020
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Reflections, memories and sources: growing up at Kew Cottages

  • February 26, 2020
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A Network of Support: Mothering Across the Koorie Community in Victoria, Australia

  • February 26, 2020
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Victorian orphans and clinical research

  • February 26, 2020
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Boy’s scars harm the man

  • February 26, 2020
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Is Australian Child Abuse ‘Different’?

  • February 26, 2020
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The state and the child

  • February 26, 2020
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Traces in the archives: evidence of institutional abuse in surviving child welfare records

  • February 26, 2020
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“The supervision of … babies is women’s work, and cannot be rightly done by men”: Victorian women’s organisations and female child welfare inspectors 1890-1915

  • February 26, 2020
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The value of the vignette in the writing of welfare history

  • February 26, 2020
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