Sending Agency was the name given to the organisation responsible for arranging the migration of children to Australia from the United Kingdom or Malta. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary
This is footage from a voiceovered newsreel from 1948 about a group of child migrants from the United Kingdom to Australia, sponsored by the Big Brother Movement. It shows a ship that had 580 ‘new settlers’ on board, and states that 250 of them were under 12 years old. It mentions that some of the…
Special Collections and Archives (SC&A), University of Liverpool (in the United Kingdom) has a collection including manuscripts and archives, medieval to modern; early and finely printed books, and science fiction collections. Its Social Welfare Archives comprise records deposited at the University of Liverpool by child-related voluntary organisations, community projects and organisations working with the homeless.
The Fairbridge Society in Britain held personal and institutional records that may be of interest to people who were placed in as children at Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, Western Australia, or at Drapers Hall in South Australia. These records are now managed by The King’s Trust, a British charitable organisation that merged with Fairbridge in…
This is a collection of records of the Dreadnought Association, which was formed in the 1970s by former ‘Dreadnought boys’ (child migrants brought to Australia by the Dreadnought Trust). The records relate to to child migration and to the Government Agricultural Farm at Scheyville. Access Conditions Please contact the State Library of New South Wales…
This is a video of the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, delivering an apology to the people sent as child migrants from Britain in the twentieth century.
On 24 February 2010 the British Government apologised to Former Child Migrants sent from Britain. This is the response by Harold Haig, secretary of The International Association of Former Child Migrants and their Families.
This website holds a video of the statement of apology made to Former Child Migrants by the British Parliament’s House of Lords.
This website has two excerpts from ‘The Leaving of Liverpool’, a television program produced in 1992. ‘The Leaving of Liverpool’ was a dramatized account of unaccompanied child migration from Britain to Australia. Its impact in putting child migration ‘on the map’ in terms of awareness among the general population and those people who had come…
This is a slideshow of photographs from the archives of the Christian Brothers Oceania Province. It was created by ‘old boys’ Peter Bent and Michael Hogan, with assistance from Ed Butler, using images from ‘Institution Albums 1 and 2’ (Holy Spirit Collection). The slideshow has a small number of photos of groups of children about…
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