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Home for Boys. Opened by the Governor

  • February 26, 2020
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St Martin’s Boys’ Home

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Boys’ Home Auxiliaries

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Boys’ Home at Canterbury

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St Martin’s Home. New buildings opened. Lord Somers’ interest.

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After the orphanage: life beyond the children’s home

  • 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

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The value of the vignette in the writing of welfare history

  • February 26, 2020
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Social Services (Chapter VIII of A Short History of the Church of England in Victoria 1847-1947)

  • February 26, 2020
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