Links - Institutions
workhouses.org.uk - Extensive background information about society's poor and the workhouse system. Includes details of many individual workhouses
Children's Homes - Information on the many and varied institutions that became home for thousands of children and young people in Britain. Orphanages, industrial and approved schools, training ships and hostels
nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords - Hospital database listing types of record available and where they can be found
hiddenlives.org.uk - The Children's Society, care homes, photographs, case files
britainschildmigrants.com - Exhibition and resources about child migration schemes - orphans and children whose families couldn't care for them sent abroad to face uncertain futures
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