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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

BOX 1
‘The South Australian Boy-Immigration Scheme 1913-1929’, a thesis by Cosmos Christo, 1974.
Extract from ‘Education for Empire Settlement’ by Alex Scholes.
Public Schools Emigrations, 1920s.
Barnado’s, 1922, 1926.
Reginald Thornton papers., 1920s, 1984
Public Schoolboys’ Tour, 1926-27.
Queensland Farm Apprentices, 1920s.
Government Agricultural Training farm, Scheyville,  1911-1947.
Records re juvenile migration (held by the National Library of Australia), 1920s-1930s – include Crutchley correspondence; Dreadnought Trust correspondence ; Dreadnought Boys correspondence; Empire Service Club Diary and correspondence; Immigration Dept.; Labour & Industry; Press cuttings.

BOX 2
Sedgwick papers, 1912-1920s.
Lists of Dreadnought Boys, 1927-29.
South Australian Report on Boy Migration (Barwell Scheme), 1924.
Juvenile Migration articles.
J.Harris (1972) G. Stedman Jones (1971) – Unemployment ca. 1890-1914.
Church  Lads Brigade, 1904-1913.
Boys Brigade.
R.J. Bray, ‘The Town Child’, 1907 and ‘Boy Labour & Apprenticeship’, 1911.
Colin Newbury, ‘Labour Migration’, 1975 and ‘The March of Everyman’ 1984; Shula Marks, ‘International Labour Migration’, 1984.
R.H. Tawny ‘The Economics of Boy Labour’, 1909.
Piddington Royal Commission on Apprenticeship, 1911-12.
E.J. Urwick, ‘Studies of Boy Life’,1904.
Agricultural farms, 1900-11.
J.H. Whitehouse, ‘Problems of Boy Life’, 1912.
Juvenile Migrants Apprenticeship Acts, 1923, 1925.

BOX 3
T. Sedgwick, ‘Town Lads/Lads for the Empire’, 1914.
Boy Scouts, 1912-61.
Public Record Office files on juvenile migration, mainly 1920s.
‘Fairbridge: Empire and Child Migration’ by Geoffrey Sherington & Chris Jeffery (typescript), 1997.

BOX 4
‘The Leaving of Liverpool’, 1992-98.
Correspondence, 1989-99.
Fairbridge general correspondence, 1981-2002
Draft outlines of ‘Fairbridge’.
‘Fairbridge’, Chapters 2-4.
Photographs (2 folders).
BOX 5
‘Fairbridge: Empire and Child Migration’ by Geoffrey Sherington & Chris Jeffery: Typescripts, Book proposal; Book contract file, Book launch; Correspondence and photographs, 1997-2002.

BOX 6
Kent Colonization Association, 1920.
Church of England Immigration Council, YMCA, Salvation Army, 1926-29, 1972.
British Overseas Settlement Delegation, 1923
British Settlers Welfare Committee, 1931-36.
Scheyville, 1925-32.
New Settlers League of Australia, 1920s (3 files).
R. L. Schwell, ‘A Superior Class of Boy’.
Migration Recruitment – Commonwealth Policy, 1926-27.
Voyage to Australia, 1926. Notes for welfare officers on migrant ships.
Immigration & Tourist Bureau Reports, 1907-13.
Migration documents, 1900-18.
Richard Arthur Papers (Mitchell Library).
NSW Land Settlement, 1920s (with reference to Dreadnoughts).
Various Settlement Schemes, 1920s.

BOX 7
‘The Boy Settler’, 1925-42.
Greater London Record Office Central (unemployed) Body. Emigration records, 1908-14.
Migrants Case Studies.
‘Empire Settlement’ by J.A.R. Marriott, 1927.
The Millions Club of NSW, 1915-37.
‘The Future of Immigration’ by Duncan & Jones, 1937.
Victorian Land Settlement, 1925-29.
Pamphlets on Immigration to NSW, 1913, 1920s.
West Ham Emigration.
British Immigration league of Australia

BOX 8
Migration pamphlets, ca. 1914-1925.
Church Army, 1897-1920s.
‘Australian Immigration Policy’ by A.H. Charteris,1927.
Immigration – Statistics – Year Books, 1911-51.
The Times Index, 1909-26.
General Juvenile Migration – Dreadnought, Fairbridge, Big Brother Movement - newspaper references & general references, 1910-1950s.
Big Brother Scheme, 1925-31.
Big Brother Movement - Overseas Settlement Office Reports from Australia, 1926-31.
Big Brother Boy Scouts, 1929-83.

BOX 9
Big Brother Movement, 1924-25.
Big Brother Movement, 1926-27.
Big Brother Movement, 1928-41
Big Brother Movement, Annual Reports, 1926-60.
Big Brother Movement in ‘The New Australian’, 1928-29

BOX 10
Big Brother Movement Minutes of Executive Committee, 1939-48.
Big Brother Movement Minutes of Executive Committee, 1949-1950.
Big Brother Movement Minutes of Council & Annual Meetings, 1933-44.
Big Brother Movement Minutes of Council & Annual Meetings, 1944-49.
Big Brother Movement Minutes of Council & Annual Meetings, 1948-59.
Big Brother Movement Minutes of Annual General Meetings, 1955-62.
Big Brother Movement Minute Book, 1925-33.
Little Brothers Job Locations.

BOX 11
‘The Genesis of Australian Agricultural Colleges’ by Alan Black, 1975.
Fairbridge articles.
‘Footing the Bill: Fairbridge NSW and the Child Migration Programme 1938-1960’, by John Collet, 1994
Fairbridge Families Biographies & Related Material.
British Museum.
‘Veld Verse’ by Kingsley Fairbridge.
Rhys Fairbridge papers, 1890s-1920s.
Fairbridge Foundation NSW.
Kingsley Fairbridge autobiography & related material in the national Archives of Zimbabwe.
Mitchell Library material.
Judy Collingwood notes re Immigration & Fairbridge Farm School, 1907-26., 
Australian Archives – Migration.

BOX 12
Child Migrants Trust, 1997.
Fairbridge Society (UK),1980s-1990s.
Public Record Office/ British Museum.
Zimbabwe neswcuttings,1980s-90s.
Bibliography – Migration.
Pinjarra, 1920s-1970.
Old Fairbridgians Associations, 1908s-1997.
Guide to the Archives of the Fairbridge Society deposited by Mr. I.F.S. Vincent, The University Archives, Liverpool, 1984.
Fairbridge papers – Liverpool – Bush House, 1984.97.
Barnado’s, 1921, 1983-84.
Fairbridge Family papers, 1912-22 mainly correspondence.
Fairbridge Society – Perth, 1980-85.
Fairbridge – Perth, 1983-97.
 
BOX 13
Soldier Settlements, 1920s.
Victorian Land Settlement, 1926-34.
‘House Building & The Age structure of Population in NSW, 1861-1900’ by R.V. Jackson, 1974.
Group Settlement – Western Australia – Oral History, 1922-84.
‘The Training of British Migrant Women for Australia in the 1920s’ by Paula Hamilton. 1986.
Western Australia – Land Settlement, 1922-26.
Individual Migrants – Case Studies, 1920s.
NSW Assisted Immigration, 1880-
‘NSW Immigration Policy 1856-1900’ by Albert Hayden, 1971.
References to Check.

BOX 14
Various Journal articles, mainly relating to immigration, including:
‘Victoria’s Immigration Scandal of the Thirties’ by Sandra McDonald, 1978.
‘Soldier Settlement and the Australian Agrarian Myth after the First World War’ by Ken Fry, 1985.
‘Social & Political Aspects of Migration from Great Britain to Australia 1919-1938’ by Geoffrey Serle, 1948.
‘Demographic Change & Economic Growth: Australia 1861-1911’ by A.C. Kelley, 1968.
‘The Immigration Problem in Australia’ by G.L. Wood, 1926.
‘The Economists & Australian Population Strategy in the Twenties’, by Neville Cain, 1974.
‘Some Factors Inhibiting Immigration in the 1920s’ by D.H. Pope, 1984.
‘The Development of Group Settlement in Western Australia’ by G.P. Taylor, 1930.
‘Million Farms Campaign, NSW 1919-1925’ by Gary Lewis, 1984.
‘Group Settlement in Western Australia’ by I.L. Hunt, 1958.
‘The  1934 Kalgoorlie Riots…’ by R. Gerritson, 1969.
‘Australian capital Cities in the 19th Century’ by J.W. McCarty, 1970.
‘The Sydney Ducks…’ by Ricards & Blackburn, 1973.
‘The Pattern of Population Change in Australia’ by A.T. Gover, 1946.
‘The Anti-Immigration Movement 1877-1893’ by A.A. Hayden, 1962.
‘Wage Determination in NSW 1890-1921’, by P.G. McCarthy, 1968.
‘Wages for Unskilled Work, & Margins for Skill’ by P.G. McCarthy, 1972.
‘Economic or Racist: Australia’s Reactions to Italians in North Queensland 1921-1939’ by L.D. Henderson, 1978.
‘Immigration & Economic Fluctuations’ by Glen Withers, 1977.
‘Immigration to Tasmania… 1860-1919’ by F.K. Crowley, 1954.
‘Case Studies in Emigration: Cornwall, Gloucestershire to NSW 1877-1886’ by Ross Duncan.
‘Owner Occupation of Houses in Sydney’ by R.V. Jackson,1970.
‘An Attempted Finnish Utopian Settlement in Queensland’ by O. Koivukangas, 1972.
‘Aspects of Japanese Immigration to Queensland before 1900’ by J. Armstrong, 1973.
‘Pacific Island Labour Migrants in Queensland’ by Peter Corris, 1970.
‘Queensland Immigration and the Black Ball Line’ by W.Foote, 1977-78.
‘The Chinese Community in Queensland, 1874-1900’ by K. Cronin, 1973.
‘Irish Migration to Queensland 1885-1912’ by M. MacGinley, 1974.
‘Australian Responses to Jewish Refugee Migration before and after World War II’ by S. Rutland, 1985.
‘British Migration to Australia’ by J. Forsyth, 1938.
‘Factors Affecting the Structure of the Australian Population’, by K. Jupp, 1958.
‘Estimation of the Distribution of Arrivals & Departures in Australia by Single Years of Age 1911-1920’ by M. Sivamurthy, 1976.
‘Unemployment among Young people in Australia’ by G.R. Giles, 1935.
‘British Migration to New Zealand after World War II’ by B. Layton, 1983.
‘Australian Unemployment 1900-1940’ by C. Forster, 1965.
‘Rural Population Changes in NSW 1921-1954’ by J.A. Sheppard, 1964.
‘Everywoman’s Calling? British Domestic Workers to Australia in the 1920s’ by P. Hamilton, 1986.
‘The Australian Boom: The Encouragement of Immigration to Australia between 1910 & 1914’ by M. Langfield, 1986.
‘late 19th Century Immigration into NSW from the UK’ by R. Duncan, 1974.
‘Assisted immigration & Federal State relations 1901-1930’ by D. Pope.
‘Commonwealth Outlays on Immigration 1904-1939’by D. Pope, 1983.
‘The Contribution of UK Migrants to Australia’s Employment & Economic Growth’ by D. Pope, 1977.
‘Demographic Transition in the Antipodes 1891-1911’ by N. Hicks, 1974.
‘Net Migration to Australian Colonies & States 1891-1911’ by N. McArthur, 1967.
‘Contours of Australian Immigration 1901-1930’ by D. Pope, 1981.
‘Empire Migration to Canada, Australia & New Zealand 1910-1929’ by D. Pope, 1968.

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