In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker,
investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a
boat to Australia by the British government. At first 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 Empire, right up until as
recently as 1970. Many were told that their parents were dead, and
parents often believed that their children had been adopted in
Britain.
In fact, for many children it was to be a life of horrendous
physical and sexual abuse far away from everything they knew.
Margaret reveals how she unravelled this shocking secret and how it
became her mission to reunite these innocent and unwilling exiles
with their families in Britain before it was too late.
PUBLICATION DATE: Apr 2011
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