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Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions (2023)
Thesis
Baker, J. Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4500549

In 1986, Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, received a letter from a former child migrant called Mary, who had been deported to Australia at the age of six. Mary pleaded with Humphreys to help her be reunited with her birth family.... Read More about Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions.

Second-Generation Voices of the Polish and Ukrainian Diaspora in Northern Britain, 1948-1998 (2023)
Thesis
Grombir, F. Second-Generation Voices of the Polish and Ukrainian Diaspora in Northern Britain, 1948-1998. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4425243

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of migrants came to rebuild post-war Britain. The arrival of the so-called Windrush generation presented, in the words of Trevor Phillips, the irresistible rise of multi-racial... Read More about Second-Generation Voices of the Polish and Ukrainian Diaspora in Northern Britain, 1948-1998.

Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones (2020)
Book
Evans, N., & McCarthy, A. (Eds.). (2020). Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

As the British expanded their empire from near colonies such as Ireland to those in remote corners of the world, such as Barbados, Ceylon, North America and Australia, they left a trail of physical remains in every parish where settlement occurred. B... Read More about Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones.