Empty Cradles

Empty Cradles
Author: Margaret Humphreys
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011
Genre: Australia
ISBN: 0552165328


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The author claims that up to 150, 000 children, the last as recently as 1967, were deported from British children's homes and shipped off to a "new life" in distant parts - in many cases to a life of physical and sexual abuse. In this book, she provides an account of her investigations.


Empty Cradles
Language: en
Pages: 386
Authors: Margaret Humphreys
Categories: Australia
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Random House

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The author claims that up to 150, 000 children, the last as recently as 1967, were deported from British children's homes and shipped off to a "new life" in dis
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Pages: 402
Authors: Margaret Humphreys
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-13 - Publisher: Random House

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Pages: 307
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Categories: History
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Pages: 298
Authors: John Hawkins
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Kurt Vonnegut
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-04 - Publisher: Dial Press

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