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I. Files relating to the Kingsley Fairbridge Child Emigration Society
BOX 1
Code of the Fairbridge Farm School.
Fairbridge MSS and Rules of the School..
Rules of British Life.
Fairbridge Lectures.
Fairbridge Correspondence, 1908-1912.
Fairbridge Code of the School, 1921.
Fairbridge 'Personal' Correspondence, 1913-1918. Mainly copies of letters sent and received by Kingsley Fairbridge.
Central Emigration Board. Annual Report, 1910.
W.A. Government Reports on Fairbridge, 1913-1920.
Fairbridge Correspondence, ca. 1908-1922. Includes copies of letters by Kingsley Fairbridge.
Fairbridge - Oxford Executive Committee, 1910-1912.
Dominions Royal Commission, 1912-1918.

BOX 2
Fairbridge London Sub-Committee, 1913-1916.
Fairbridge London Sub-Committee, 1916-1919.  
Royal Colonial Institute (R.C.S.) Empire Migration Scheme 1911-1927.
Colonial Secretary File 1967/13, 1909-1913.
Fairbridge - Political Speeches.
Newscuttings - Fairbridge, 1912-1923.
Fairbridge - Correspondence, Reports (Bush House London), 1909-1915.
K. Fairbridge Correspondence & Reports 1913-1919.
The Empire Review, 1906-1914.
Fairbridge - Newscuttings, 1909-1922.
Rhodes Scholars, 1934-1946.
Kinloch Cooke 'The Emigration of State Children' and 'Mrs Close's Scheme for State Children', 1905-1907.
Fairbridge London Executive Committee, 1920-1922.
Fairbridge - Incorporation - Agreement with UK Government, 1918, 1923
Fairbridge Newscuttings, 1921-1922.
Agreements with Fairbridge, 1919-1925.
Fairbridge Speeches, 1918-1919.
Fairbridge C.E.S. [Child Emigration Society] Correspondence, 1920-1921.

BOX 3
Fairbridge Council/Executive/Finance, 1922-1925.
Migration Policy/Schemes, 1919-
Fairbridge Oxford  Executive Committee, 1912-1920.
1922'Crisis'.
Commonwealth Policy, 1912, ca. 1917-1923.
Fairbridge England, 1920-1922.
Fairbridge 'Personal Correspondence, 1918-1924. Mainly copies of letters sent and received by Kingsley Fairbridge.
Farm School Society Executive Committee, 1918-1923.
Death of Kingsley Fairbridge.
Fairbridge School - Diary, 1913-1925.
Female - Juvenile Migration 1922-
Fairbridge - Farm School Society, 1920-1922.
Fairbridge Correspondence - W.A. Politics, Farm Society, 1919-1922.


II. Files relating to the Fairbridge Society
BOX 4
Rhodesia, 1930s-1997.
Fairbridge Society Annual Report, 1932-1933.
Fairbridge Farm Schools of NSW - Minutes of Meetings, 1937-1966.
Fairbridge Farm Schools of NSW - Annual Reports, 1937-1970.
Molong - Immigration Policy, 1930s-1950s.
Pinjara, 1935-1946 (Disputes).
Home Office Policy, 1939-1957.
Fact-Finding Mission, 1956-1957.

BOX 5
Molong Newscuttings (John Stocker & Denis Silver), 1940s-1980s.
Fairbridge Molong - London Negotiations, 1940-44.
Fairbridge Molong Annual Reports, 1971-1988.
Fairbridge - British Columbia.
Prince of Wales Fund, 1934.
Northcote - Fairbridge Files, 1930s-1950s
Northcote - Commonwealth Policy, 1934-1950, British Policy 1931-
Northcote Newscuttings (John Stocker & Denis Silver), 1930s-1980s.
Middlemore Homes, 1918-1972.
Arthur G. B. West articles, 1934-1941, & an interview with Duncan A.P. West, 1985.
Fairbridge - Includes Executive Committee Minutes, reports, 1926-1952.


III. Files relating to Fairbridge Children 
BOX 6
Fairbridge Children, Jan., April, July 1921.
Fairbridge Children, April 1922.
Fairbridge Children, Dec. 1923.
Fairbridge Children, Jan. 1924.
Fairbridge Children, 1921-1929.
Fairbridge Children, 1928-1930.
Fairbridge Children, Sept. 1912 and May 1913 Parties.

BOX 7
Fairbridge Parties, 1912-.
Fairbridge Party, August 1935 'Otranto'.
Fairbridge Party, July 1949, 'Otranto'.
Fairbridge Children,1948-1961, Northcote Children, 1927-1939.
Fairbridge Newscuttings etc. 1987-1997.
Catholic Child Migration Newscuttings, 1980s-1990s.
Fairbridge Children, 1920s-


IV. Files relating to the Big Brother Movement
BOX 8
Executive Minutes, 1951-1960.
From LB [Little Brother] cards.
Sir Richard Linton.
South Australian Branch, 1975-1976.
Big Brother Movement, 1980s.
Draft of 'The Likely Lads: A History of the Dreadnought Boys and Little Brothers' by Geoffrey Sherington, ca. 1985.
List of Dreadnought Boys who arrived in N.S.W. between 1921 and 1929 and in 1939.
Copies of Big Brother Pamphlets in the Mitchell Library.
Original pamphlet:  'Australia The Land of the Better Chance',1927.

BOX 9 
Little Brothers, 1925-30, 1939, 1947-59.
Little Brothers - Year/Month/Ship of Arrival (computer printouts), 1986.
Brochures, newscuttings, correspondence, 1920s-1980s.
Photographs of former migrants, ships & articles about migration.

BOX 10  RESTRICTED
Little Brothers Survey.
Fairbridge Farm Interviews - Correspondence, 1980s.
Correspondence with Little Brother, 1980s.
Manuscript of 'The Dreadnought Boy' by  C.A. Macdonald.
Copyright Forms.

 
V. Files Relating to Child Migration Policy, 1930-1945
BOX 11
Inter-Departmental Committee on Migration, 1943-46.
Crutchley Report on Migration, 1932, with Crutchley Diary, 1930 & Crutchley papers, 1928-1940.
British Orphans Adoption Society, 1943-1945.
Copy of 'Education for Empire Settlement' by Alex Scholes, 1932.
Copy of 'Imperialism and Popular Culture', edited by John M. Mcackenzie, 1986.
Australian Migration Policy; Big Brother, Fairbridge (P.R.O. D.O. 35), ca. 1943-
Copy of 'Group Settlement of Migrants in Western Australia' by E. Schann, 1925.
U.K. Reports on Empire Migration, 1932, 1934.
Commonwealth Policy, 1925-1937.
Copy of 'Child Migration: A Survey of the Australian Field' by Caroline Kelly, 1944.
Queensland Proposals, 1934-1954.


VI. Files Relating to Child Migration Policy, post 1945
BOX 12
British fact Finding Mission, 1955-1956.
Extracts from Report of of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Migration Policy, 1954-1956.
Fairbridge Society - Home Office negotiations, 1945-
Premiers' Conference, 1953.
National Children's Home - Orphanages, 1949-1951, 1994.
Report on Child Migration to Australia by John Moss, 1951-1956.
One Parent Scheme, 1957-1970.

BOX 13
Curtis Committee Report and related material, 1945-1987.
Biographies.
Fairbridge - Big Brother Movement, 1960-1978.
New Zealand Proposals,1932-1956.
Overseas Migration Board, 1954-1955.
Pinjarra Commonwealth Policy, 1946-
Commonwealth Policy, 1947-1963.
Fairbridge - Garnett Report, 1944-1945.
Fairbridge Delegations to Australia & Canada, 1951, 1963, 1967, 1976.
British Government Policy, 1947-
Fairbridge (London Policy), 1951-
 

VII. Sound Recordings
MLOH 539
Interviews with former child migrants from Britain, 1985-1997, recorded in the course of research for the book 'Fairbridge: Empire and child migration', by Geoffrey Sherington and Chris Jeffery. For access please contact the Curator of Oral History.

Geoffrey Sherington - further papers  concerning the Fairbridge Society and related Child Migration, ca. 1905-1997

Australasia, including Australia, New Zealand, the western Pacific & the British sector in Antarctica / edited by A.J. Herbertson and O.J.R. Howarth ; with 40 photographs, 3 coloured maps and 70 figurres in text.

George Munster - papers, 1917-1984

Stuart Inder papers, ca. 1910-ca. 2010

FitzGerald family further papers, 1827, 1916-1993

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