Genealogy research and family history links - Workhouses, Hospitals, Institutions

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 - National Archives database listing types of UK hospital records that may be available and where they can be found - The National Archives no longer update this database and this links to the archived pages but is still a useful reference. Check with the record holders that they still hold the records you are looking for. Also be aware that records for people who may still be living will be protected by data protection laws.

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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