Communities of care: family, community, and social care for children, 1882-1912

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The PhD offers an opportunity to explore one of the richest care archives, advance knowledge about pathways inand out of care, and reframe historiographical fields by situating children's care within broader histories of familyand community life. Designed with The Children's Society, using critically understudied records, this projectreconstructs the family histories of children in care and advances understandings about the relationship betweenpoor families and their communities before institutional admission and following discharge. It reveals how children'scare and their reintegration into society were envisaged as community responsibilities and how public agenciescollaborated to achieve this.