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Empty Cradles

  • Margaret Humphreys

Empty Cradles is a powerful testament to an ordinary woman’s astonishing dedication, compassion and stubborn courage.

In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social work and mother of two, 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.  At first incredulous, Margaret Humphreys soon discovered that this woman’s story was just the tip of an enormous iceberg.  As many as an estimated 150,000 children had in fact been deported from children’s homes in Britain and shipped off to a ‘new life’ in distant parts of the Empire – the last as recently as 1967.  Many of the children were told that their parents were dead.  Their parents, too, were often deceived; many believed that their children had been adopted in Britain.  The reality was very different:  for numerous children it was to be a life of horrendous physical and sexual abuse in institutions in Western Australia and elsewhere.

Status: Out of stock

Number of Pages: 384

Published: 1995

Publisher: Corgi Books

Format: Softcover

ISBN: 978-0-552-14164-2

ID#: 12173

DC#: 362.7 H

Category: Books

Out of stock

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