Children's Homes Higginbotham Peter
Children's Homes Higginbotham Peter What image does the word 'orphanage' conjure up in your mind? Or a forbidding grey edifice whose cowering inmates were ruled over with a rod of iron by a stern,…
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Children's Homes Higginbotham Peter
What image does the word 'orphanage' conjure up in your mind? Or a forbidding grey edifice whose cowering inmates were ruled over with a rod of iron by a stern, starched matron? A sunny scene of carefree children at play in the grounds of a large ivy-clad house?
From the Tudor times to the present day, this fascinating book answers questions such as: Who founded and ran all these institutions? In Children's Homes, Peter Higginbotham explores the history of the institutions in Britain that were used as a substitute for children's 'natural' homes. Who paid for them?
Where have they all gone? And what was life like for their inmates? Illustrated throughout, Children's Homes provides an essential, previously overlooked, account of the history of these British
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