Call Number |
MN 1621 |
Physical description |
32 cm. |
Access advisory |
Available for reference; not for loan. |
Cite As |
Battye Library, MN 1621, Papers of Oliver Cosgrove, ACC 5029A. |
Biography/history |
Researcher into the Child Migration Scheme under which thousands of children were sent from Great Britain to Australia and denied knowledge of their origins. He was himself a child migrant to Australia in the 1950s. |
Finding Aids |
Detailed listing available (MN 1621) |
Summary |
Correspondence with Child Migrants Trust (U.K.), Catholic Welfare Council, and Catholic Bishop's Conference of England and Wales Social Welfare Committee, and VOICES; correspondence relating to Clontarf and Castledare orphanages; file of correspondence, submissions and research notes relating to the Select Committee into Child Migration; file of correspondence and other papers relating to search for his own family in Ireland; records of the British Federation of Social Workers relating to child migration; records relating to the WA Institutions Reconciliations Trust. |
Subjects |
Cosgrove, Oliver -- Archives.
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Immigrant children -- Western Australia -- Archives.
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