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Ancestry UK

The National Children's Home Story

Early Days
The First Home
Bonner Road
Expansion
Staff Training
Emigration
The Curtis Report
The End of the Homes
Action For Children Today
Records/Bibliography

Records

Action For Children (formerly the National Children's Home or NCH) offers access to records for:

  • Adults who were formerly in care then adopted
  • Adults formerly in care in the UK, now resident outside the UK
  • Adults adopted through Action for Children
  • Birth relatives wanting intermediary services i.e. help with search and reunion

For more details on accessing records, see the Action For Children website.

Bibliography

  • Bradfield, William The Life of the Reverend Thomas Bowman Stephenson (1913, Kelly)
  • Curnock, Nehemiah The Story of the Children's Home (C.H. Kelly, 1901)
  • Higginbotham, Peter Children's Homes: A History of Institutional Care for Britain's Young (2017, Pen & Sword)
  • Horner, Francis Shadow and Sun (Epworth Press, 1920)
  • Howard, Philip J Philip: a Strange Child (Dalkeith Publishing, 2007)
  • Philpot, Terry Action For Children (Lion, 1994)
  • Walpole, Cecil F. Golden Links (Epworth Press, 1941)

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