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Kate Brooks
@katebrooks.bsky.social
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Author & researcher on care & education history, fostering, care leavers. Politely flogging book. Also mother, foster carer, dog ‘owner’ (she rules us) & keeper of hens. Tendency to rant about state of education & why people can’t just be nice.
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Kate Brooks @katebrooks.bsky.social · May 16
So powerful to hear the voices of the ‘foundlings’ and such a moving & apt paper for the conference to end on!
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Kate Brooks @katebrooks.bsky.social · May 16
#Londonfoundlingmuseum Tokens in the street nearby tepresenting those ‘fallen women’ left with their babies in the hope of reclaiming them.
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Kate Brooks @katebrooks.bsky.social · May 16
Yes! It’s just easy scapegoating, usually from the same people who talk about how lovely that ‘foreign doctor’ was who saved their nan’s life…
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Kate Brooks @katebrooks.bsky.social · May 16
Thanks Laura! Loved yours- those haunting images of laundry machinery overseen by Jesus…
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Kate Brooks @katebrooks.bsky.social · May 15
Thanks @clartyclara.bsky.social !
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Kate Brooks @katebrooks.bsky.social · May 15
Hugely enjoying ‘Infants & Institutions’ international conference at the London Foundling Museum. Powerful, moving, funny, enraging stories. Not your usual conference!
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