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Empty Cradles
Empty Cradles
Author: Margar Humphreys, Margaret Humphreys
In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated the case of a woman who claimed that, at the age of four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. Margaret Humphreys soon discovered that as many as 150,000 children had in fact been deported from children's homes in Britian and shipped off to a "new ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780552141642
ISBN-10: 055214164X
Publication Date: 1/1/2000
Pages: 383
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: Transworld
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 3
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"One Woman's fight to uncover Britain's most shameful secret". I just finished this book in one sitting, very compelling account of 130,000 migrant children between the ages of 3-12 (est) from the UK, Ireland and Scotland, sent to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Africa. Some parts brought tears to my eyes to think of all the children and all the years of mistreatment and abuse they suffered at the hands of their care givers! The main focus of this book were the children sent to Australia and how she started out by helping one lady find her relatives in England and her work grew from there. I actually got my book from ebay as it wasn't available on here, after i watched the movie Oranges and Sunshine from Netflix! (8/2012)

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