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Family Policy and Orphan Schools in Early Colonial Australia

  • February 26, 2020
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“We ask for bread and are given stone”: The Girls Industrial School, Parramatta, 1941-1961

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The “Penal Reformatory” that never was: Proposals to establish Borstal training in New South Wales, 1900-1948

  • February 26, 2020
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‘”problem” children of this community’: Christ Church St Laurence and the Children’s Court, Sydney, 1936-41

  • February 26, 2020
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The Randwick Asylum: Organizational Resistance to Social Change

  • February 26, 2020
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Stars point to brighter future for Forgotten Australians

  • February 26, 2020
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Royal commissions: how do they work?

  • February 26, 2020
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A better class of boy: The Big Brother Movement, youth migration and citizenship of Empire

  • February 26, 2020
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The New Charlton: “Milleewa Changes Hands”

  • February 26, 2020
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Life in the industrial and reformatory school for girls in New South Wales [Series of two parts]: Part 1: 1867 to 1887. ‘Hymns, songs and blackguard verses’. Part 2: 1887 to 1910. Laundry maids or ladies?

  • February 26, 2020
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