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Subject: Launch of Hidden Lives Revealed
> Apologies for cross-posting
>
>
> Hidden Lives Revealed - A Virtual Archive
>
> The Children's Society announces the launch of a major new online
resource
> - Hidden Lives Revealed.
>
> www.hiddenlives.org.uk is an exciting and unique new resource for
anyone
> interested in British social history. The site has something for you
if
> you are at school learning about the Victorians or even at university
> studying social work. Maybe you have an interest in Victorian
architecture
> - or perhaps you'd just like to play the online games or download a
> screensaver.
>
> Focusing on the period 1881-1918 www.hiddenlives.org.uk includes
unique
> archive material about poor and disadvantaged children cared for by
the
> Waifs and Strays' Society, as The Children's Society was then known.
>
> www.hiddenlives.org.uk features a range of archive material,
previously
> not widely accessible to the public, as well as articles and learning
> materials that help to interpret these stories for a modern audience.
No
> other Internet archive exists that gives you the opportunity to browse
> through such unique material - documents that contain information
about
> Victorian and Edwardian children, families and social issues that have
not
> been recorded elsewhere.
>
> www.hiddenlives.org.uk features the full contents of around 150 case
files
> of children who were in the care of the Waifs and Strays' Society from
> this period. Even though some of these cases are from over 100 years
ago,
> they have been fully anonymised to prevent the children's
identification.
> Each case is summarised and linked to pages about the actual
children's
> homes they lived in.
>
> Photographs from The Children's Society Archive illustrate some of the
> grinding poverty of the time, and also show how children's lives were
> turned around when they entered the care of the Waifs and Strays'
Society.
>
>
> Full browsable texts of various publications will soon be available on
the
> site - these include the supporter magazines Our Waifs and Strays and
> Brothers and Sisters, as well as the Waifs and Strays' Society's
Annual
> Reports.
>
> Why not visit www.hiddenlives.org.uk and see how Britain has changed
in
> the last 100 years.
>
>
> Nigel Spicer - [log in to unmask]
> Hidden Lives Revealed Project Leader
>
> Ian Wakeling
> Records, Archive and Data Protection Manager
>
> The Children's Society Records and Archive Centre
> Block A, Floor 2, Tower Bridge Business Complex,
> 100 Clements Road, Bermondsey, London.
> SE16 4DG
>
> Tel: (020) 7232 2966
> Fax: (020) 7252 3902
>
> http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
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