Ellen Boucher: 1 book
Empire's Children
Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869–1967
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Between 1869 and 1967, government-funded British charities sent nearly 100,000 British children to start new lives in the settler empire. This pioneering study tells the story of the rise and fall of child emigration to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Southern Rhodesia. In the mid-Victorian period,...
