Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood is the first of its kind to historicize childhood in
the English-speaking world; at present no historical series on children/childhood exists …

This article examines the significance, in the lives of those who experienced out-of-home
care as children, of the archived records of their institutionalisation. The affective …

Australian and international research documents the limited access of young people
transitioning from out-of-home care (OOHC) to further and higher education. This paper …

In the early 1980s, one of the authors became an adolescent ward of the State of Victoria,
Australia, and went into out-of-home care. While in care, repeated encounters with …

This article discusses the failings of out-of-home care (OOHC) in Australia, focussing on 20th
century OOHC systems' construction of non-offending minors as “problems” while exposing …

This paper engages with the creative strategies and media interventions of the Parragirls—a
lose collective of women subject to punitive confinement and abuse as children in out-of …

This special issue of Historic Environment includes a collection of writings that originated
from a symposium held at Deakin University in November 2019. The focus of the gathering …

The contemporary community archives movement is described as a grassroots social
movement that evolved out of social, political and cultural change in the 1960s and 70s in …

Orphanages and children's homes are places of complex and often painful and difficult
histories. An estimated 500,000 children were in institutional care in Australia during the …

Australia's Find & Connect web resource (http://www. findandconnect. gov. au/australia/)
was funded as part of the federal government reparations package offered to Former Child …