The Parramatta female factory precinct and the National history curriculum
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Russell, Peter , McCart, Simon
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Silent system: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of women and children Chapter 11 p. 132-145
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- Description: In September 2013 a conference was held to commemorate and promote a site which those present unanimously acknowledged as bemg of ma;or historical significance, but which is all but unknown in the wider Australian community. The Parramatta Female Factory Precinct (PFFP) is one of a handful of historical sites chat represent the history of women's and children's incarceration and institutionalisation in Australia. Of that handful, the PFFP is by far the most extensive site in area, in operational longevity and in the number of extant structures it comprises. It thus stands as arguably che premier institutional exemplar in the historical field and has in recent years become a locus embodying the experiences of the Forgotten A
Introduction: new context in Australian public history: Australia's institutionalised and incarcerated
- Authors: Ashton, Paul , Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of Women and Children p. ix-xiv
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- Description: During the twentieth century in Australia more than half-a-million children grew up in 'out-of-home' care in over 800 institutions, including children's homes, foster homes, industrial schools and orphanages. A regime of mass institutionalisation was sanctioned by legislation and administered by either the state or by non-government bodies such as churches and welfare groups. Around 7,000 children were child migrants from Britain, Ireland and Malta; up to 50,000 were Indigenous 'Stolen' children and more than 450,000 were non-Indigenous children. The contributions to this groundbreaking book constitute an eclectic mix of scholarship drawn from a diverse group of historians, social scientists, artists, performers, freelance writers and stakeholders, including former state wards and Forgotten Australians. It demonstrates the breadth and depth of history and memory work that is taking place on and around places of incarceration and confinement in Australia