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Date(s) - 14/04/2023
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Join us for our first members meeting of 2023. After our meeting, Dianna Fulton, BHC SIG Chair will share her journey in discovering her British Home Child connections.
All are welcome. Register here.
20/06/2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Home Children Immigration and Their Lives – David Hemmings This webinar with slides will be similar to the presentation already on the NOTL Museum website which discusses the contributions of Ms Maria Rye and the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society between 1868 and 1914, during which time 5,300 children (mostly girls) were brought […]
14/03/2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – The first people to pioneer the idea of child migration were Scottish Evangelical Christians Annie MacPherson and her sister Louisa Birt. Born in Stirlingshire, Annie was educated in London and became aware of the poverty in the city’s East End. Annie reached out to her Christian Women associates back in Glasgow and in 1870, began […]
