Care Experience and Culture
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Dr.@Rosie_Canning & @DrDeeMichell look after Digital Archive of Care Experience📚literature 🎬film 🎭theatre 📺TV 📻radio 🖥blogs 🕸websites 🏫academic material
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Dr. Dee Michell & Dr. Rosie Canning started @careexp_culture in 2020. They've since worked voluntarily to build the most amazing Care Exp & Culture Archive -almost 2,500 entries & growing everyday. Website costs due v.soon donation button on website.
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But We All Shine On. Paolo Hewitt & Paul Anderson-Walshtalk to Jim Goddard, Chair of CLA about his experience in the care system, its history, his academic success, & his work with CLA to help others access their care files. Inspiring stories:
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RT @butweallshineon: This week our guest is @JimGoddard1, Chair of @CareLeavers. In a conversation covering his own time in care, his work…
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You can hear Lech Blaine talk about his book Australian Gospel and about how his views of the Shelley family changed as he got older. Podcast - The Tangled Branches of Lech Blaine’s Family Tree:
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Australian Gospel: A Family Saga (2024) by Australian Lech Blaine explores 2 families—the Blaines, who fostered multiple children, including 3 of the Shelleys, whose 4 children were removed by Qld State—using research, interviews, case files, court reports, and personal records.
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RT @Rosie_Canning: A Conversation With Jane Rogers: Fire Ready & other stories (2024) share the theme of ordinary people seeking meaning, f…
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The Professor’s House (1925) by Willa Cather tells the story of Tom Outland, an orphan raised by the O’Brien family in Kansas before they moved to New Mexico. Tom discovers an ancient city in New Mexico & finds that his 'friend' Roddy Blake has been looting & selling artifacts.
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Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) spent his early years with storytelling grandparents, shaping his magic realism, and his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) which became a Spanish Netflix series in 2024, featuring the orphan Rebecca who was adopted.
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The World is My Home (1992) is James A. Michener's memoir, written at 85, reflecting on his life in foster care, love for travel & literature, the challenges & rewards of writing, & his political interests, aiming to show the ordinary roots and complex motivations of a writer.
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American writer James A. Michener (1907–1997) was born to unknown parents & raised by foster carer Mabel Michener in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He was a naval historian, & won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Tales of the South Pacific which inspired a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical.
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British broadcaster & writer James O’Brien was adopted at 28 days old by journalist Jim O’Brien & his wife, later attending Catholic school before studying Philosophy & Economics at LSE, & becoming LBC presenter in 2002, hosting Full Disclosure podcast since 2019.
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RT @JimGoddard1: This month's CLA Zoom Meeting on Wednesday is a bit different (see below). Firstly, there are three of us presenting. Seco…
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Baroness Lola Young discusses her childhood in care, writing her memoir Eight Weeks (2024), her Nigerian parents, influences from the anti-apartheid and Civil Rights movements, and needed improvements in the care system.
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@BFI Hi, you don't seem to have a search facility on your website. I checked the shop which does, looking for information about 'Home to Danger' (1951)
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RT @TheBlackCareExp: 🗣️ Calling All Foster Carers and Residential Children’s Homes Staff! How Can We Help You?👏🏾Firstly Thank You to the Se…
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RT @Rosie_Canning: In 1957 Colin Petersen was voted one of the biggest stars at the British box office. He also appeared in A Cry from the…
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