Peter Higginbotham

[Peter Higginbotham @Childrens_Homes]

Read the wonderful memoir of life in the #Swanley Home for Little Boys in 1935-40 by Hylton Dawson at https://t.co/Pj3kwqPUZX

[Peter Higginbotham @Childrens_Homes]

In 1944, Barnardo's issues a confidential rule book for the staff of its homes. https://t.co/S8Qgsc7LU5

[Peter Higginbotham @Childrens_Homes]

N.I. Police's Investigation into Mother and Baby Institutions, Work Houses and Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses - message to victims. https://t.co/kNYEm43YCf

[Peter Higginbotham @Childrens_Homes]

New! Yorkshire Deaf Institution, Doncaster - Inmates 1849 (https://t.co/fB0IYxQnUo), Leavers 1828-55 (https://t.co/w6MK2x2EQi) and Leaver follow-up reports (https://t.co/aNZ3E6i0TW) #Yorkshire #Deaf #Doncaster

[Peter Higginbotham @Workhouses]

Out Today! 'The Workhouses of Wales & the Welsh Borders' - the first book looking at the workhouse across the whole of Wales + Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. https://t.co/Ah3pdptaqv

[Peter Higginbotham @Childrens_Homes]

Sexual abuse at #Hollybrook children's homes, #Southampton, in the 1950s. More info on the homes at https://t.co/pI0TV4tKBJ BBC news report at https://t.co/0q1Z070HxY

[Peter Higginbotham @Workhouses]

Review of Nobody’s Child: Growing up in a Yorkshire Children’s Home, by G. J. Urquhart - https://t.co/cUBcf5vWr3 via @Shareaholic

[Peter Higginbotham @Workhouses]

My new podcast for BBC History Magazine is now online
https://t.co/dlp82E8RCc

[Peter Higginbotham @Childrens_Homes]

Lots of new pages added for historic institutions for #deaf children https://t.co/wyYnqZUzy8

[Peter Higginbotham @Workhouses]

Workhouse site visit reports by reform campaigner Joseph #Rowntree. https://t.co/n1mnzB5Z6S #Yorkshire #Quakers

[Peter Higginbotham @Childrens_Homes]

Copies of 'The History of the Webb Orphanage, Crewe' by Ray Saint (1996) now available - details at https://t.co/mafb4eNHe9 #Crewe #WebbOrphanage

[Peter Higginbotham @Childrens_Homes]

Webb #Orphanage at #Crewe - former tutor there Roy Chapman is writing an article, maybe even a book, on the place (closed 60 years ago on 31 March) and wants any information, photographs, documents, memories - contact: [email protected]

[Peter Higginbotham @Workhouses]

Christmas Day in the Workhouse - what was it really like? https://t.co/akBh3533ba

[Peter Higginbotham @Workhouses]

"Nobody's Child" - Gloria Urquhart's brutally honest and utterly compelling memoir of growing up in the 1950s in #Leeds Council children's homes, and her search for a lost family, by turns heart-rending and heart-warming. https://t.co/Hprxk6DxI3

[Peter Higginbotham @Childrens_Homes]

"Nobody's Child" - Gloria Urquhart's brutally honest and utterly compelling memoir of growing up in the 1950s care of Leeds Council, and her search for a lost family, by turns heart-rending and heart-warming. If you liked Call the Midwife you'll love this. https://t.co/vCqusaPKki

[Peter Higginbotham @Workhouses]

The decaying grandeur of the former #Gateshead Day Industrial School. https://t.co/vECDPmp2TK

[Peter Higginbotham @Childrens_Homes]

Drill session at the Buckley Hall orphanage, Rochdale - https://t.co/2RoKWkdzyB #BrothersOfCharity #BuckleyHall #Rochdale

[Peter Higginbotham @Childrens_Homes]

Interesting short film of Francis Street #SalvationArmy Hostel, #Manchester 1885
https://t.co/r5yYuhWkk5

[Peter Higginbotham @Workhouses]

I'm hoping to identify this Roman Catholic residential nursery, thought to be in the #Chislehurst area, circa 1950? Could it be the Holy Child Nursery that was on Walden Road?

[Peter Higginbotham @Childrens_Homes]

In 19C Paris up to 20% of live births were abandoned by their mothers. Brief details of over 2000 French children's establishments now catalogued at https://t.co/KO1CrvH5Kz