New Lives for Old: The Story of Britain's Home Children

by Roger Kershaw

Book Overview

Over 100,000 children were sent across the seas to Canada between 1869 and the late 1930s. Thousands of others were dispatched to Australia as well as to New Zealand, South Africa and Rhodesia up to and even after the Second World War. These young migrants came from charitable organizations or children's homes, and were sent to find a better life as agricultural workers and servants, mechanics and skilled artisans. They were the superfluous thousands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905615175
• ISBN13: 9781905615179
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"