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Loading... Empty Cradles (1994)by Margaret Humphreys
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   )1   blackdogbooks | Feb 1, 2020 |   ) mahallett | Sep 18, 2018 | Read on January 30, 2014 Emily Watson ... Margaret Humphreys Description: 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 life" in distant parts of the Empire—the last as recently as 1967. For numerous children it was to be a life of horrendous physical and sexual abuse in institutions in Western Australia and elsewhere. Margaret Humphreys reveals how she gradually unravelled this shocking secret, how she became drawn into the lives of some of these innocent and unwilling exiles, and how it became her mission to reunite them with their families. The woman whose claim that she was exported at 4 year's old, started off Humphrey's investigation. The Trailer Margaret Humphreys Constructing Bindoon The song from the film: Cat Stevens 'Wild World' 'Bindoon and I'll slip you one' seems to have been the Roman Catholic nose tap between the Brothers. UGH! I can't comment on the book or the writing style but I can tell you that this horror story has sickened me to the core. 24th Feb 2010, Gordon Brown Apologises for the abuse of children transported thousands of miles from home. (  )1 mimal | Jan 30, 2014 | ) Nanette70 | Jul 29, 2013 | Re read it again this week (May 2014) when the Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse is sitting in Perth - The work of Margaret Humphreys and the CMT helped expose this abuse and again, I recommend this book, and the film, to everyone. ( ) Figgles | Jun 26, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as three years old, had been deported from children's homes in Britain and shipped off to a 'new life' in distant parts of the Empire, right up until as recently as 1970. Many were told that their parents were dead, and parents were told that their children had been adopted. In fact, for many children it was to be a life of horrendous physical and sexual abuse far away from everything they knew. Margaret and her team reunited thousands of families before it was too late, brought authorities to account, and worldwide attention to an outrageous miscarriage of justice. Now a major film, the book that exposed the scandal of Britain's forgotten and abused child migrants. No library descriptions found. |
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