Care Leaver Records

Problems with Records Are Not Confined to the Past

Just published on line through Springer. Will be printed in Archival Science in due course. Below is a pre-publication version of the manuscript. Some minor changes will be found in the on line version which can be accessed at ‘Online First’: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-019-09304-0 DOI  10.1007/s10502-019-09304-0 “Problems with records and recordkeeping practices are not confined to the past”: A […]

Lost and found: counter-narratives of dis/located families

Lost and found: counter-narratives of dis/located families This is the Abstract for a paper presented at a symposium of the Dis/located Children’s Network in Adelaide on 16 December by Frank Golding in collaboration with Associate Professor Jacqueline Z Wilson of Federation University Australia   Conventional histories of children in institutional care are dominated by the voices […]

Archives: The Care Leaver’s perspective

This article based on my presentation at the ASA Annual Conference in Parramatta in October 2016 has just be published in Archives and Manuscripts – links below. The Care Leaver’s perspective Frank Golding Cite this article as: Frank Golding (2016) The Care Leaver’s perspective, Archives and Manuscripts, 44:3, 160-164, DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2016.1266954 To link to this […]

Lost and Found: Reconstructing a family at war

Lost and Found: Reconstructing a family at war This was the title of a paper I presented at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne on 13 December 2016 at a conference entitled (Re)Examining Historical Childhoods: Literary, Cultural, Social.  The conference was organised by the Australasian Society for the History of Children and Youth. I am working this paper up as […]

The Past is Not a Closed Chapter

The Past is Not a Closed Chapter – It Shapes the Whole Book of Our Lives This was the title of a talk I presented in Adelaide on 30 November 2016 at a workshop as part of the Routes to the Past Project, co-sponsored by the University of Melbourne, CLAN and the Dulwich Centre located in Adelaide. […]

Our childhood lives – in our own words

UPDATE: Reaching back into a strange past There was a gratifying amount of interest in my presentation at Parramatta on 20 October as part of a panel on Righting the Record: Towards a National Summit. The Archivists Society of Australia  has placed a live video of the presentation on U-Tube at: Furthermore, it will appear in the next issue […]

Ideas for Collaborative Research

This is the text of a short presentation I gave at a gathering at Monash University on 14 September 2016. The occasion was the 10th Anniversary of COSI (the Centre for Organisational & Social Informatics – a flash name for a dynamic group of research academics who work in partnership with community groups on issues around records, […]

Grants for Documenting Care Leaver Records

Copy of a  Find & Connect  blog post announcing a new grants round by Genevieve Wauchope  |  RAD2 Grants Officer, Find & Connect project:  A new round of the Records Access Documentation grants for organisations to document records relating to care leavers will open in October. Successful projects will be funded to $15 000. The grants are being funded as part […]

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