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  Oral history forms a key strand of the Caring Communities project. To help bring new voices and perspectives into the long-term history of care, we’re conducting oral history interviews with Care-Experienced people, their descendants and care workers, past and present. Oral history is more than just a methodology to recover these voices; rather, it’s […]

My name is Jim and I, along with Jade and Kate, am one of the Research Associates on the Caring Communities project. In my first blog post, I’m sharing how my background as a researcher has shaped the type of history I am interested in and how it is informing the work I’ve done on

Boarding out was the practice of placing workhouse children with foster families, usually for a weekly allowance. During the 1870s people became less inclined to support the institutionalisation of children, and more likely to support a move towards Scotland’s more family friendly model of boarding out/foster care.1 Research on fostering/boarding out in the other United

Caring Communities is a new research project, funded by UKRI, that aims to explore the history of care and care experience in modern Britain. The project team is collecting a wide range of evidence relating to the history of care provided by both state and voluntary organisations, as well as more informal practices of care