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Now a major film, the book that exposed the incredible scandal of Britain's forgotten and abused child migrants In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a British social worker, investigated a woman's claim that at the age of four she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first thinking it incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as three years old, had been deported from children's homes in Britain and shipped off to a "new life" in distant parts of the British empire, right up until 1970. Many were told that their paren
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Manufacturer: Transworld Publishers
Release date: 1 December 2011
ISBN-10 : 055216335X | ISBN-13: 9780552163354
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Release date: 1 December 2011
ISBN-10 : 055216335X | ISBN-13: 9780552163354
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