Forgotten histories: Three stories of black girls from Barnardo's Victorian archive

Women's History Review

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 351-374

  Bressey, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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ADOLESCENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; LEGAL ASPECT; NEGRO; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WELFARE; UNITED KINGDOM; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ARCHIVES; CHARITIES; FEMALE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LONDON; NARRATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; RACE RELATIONS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL CONTROL POLICIES; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL WELFARE; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 34247439887     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612020200200326     Document Type: Conference Paper

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34. Half-caste. One of a mixed race, a half-breed; esp., in India, one born or descended from a European father and native mother. Adapted from the Oxford English Dictionary on Compact Disc (2nd edn), Oxford University Press, 1993
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