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

博士学位提供了一个机会，探索最丰富的护理档案之一，推进有关进出护理途径的知识，并通过将儿童护理置于家庭和社区生活的更广泛历史中来重新构建历史学领域。该项目是与儿童协会共同设计的，利用未得到充分研究的记录，重建了受照料儿童的家庭历史，并增进了对贫困家庭与其社区在入院前和出院后的关系的理解。它揭示了如何将儿童的恐惧和他们重新融入社会设想为社区责任，以及公共机构如何合作实现这一目标。

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.