PROV Lunchtime Seminar: International Women’s Day

The Public Record Office of Victoria, in conjunction with the Victorian Australian Women’s Archive Project Committee will host a panel discussion on examining women and welfare in Victoria. 

Panellists:

Chair: Rosemary Francis

First speaker - Nell Musgrove (ACU): ‘Women creating kinship care’

Charlie Farrugia - Senior Collections Advisor, PROV

Nikki Henningham - CEO, AWAP

Dr Nell Musgrove (ACU) will consider the correspondence files of the Chief Secretary that reveal that how in the later 19th century mothers, aunts and grandmothers wrote to the Neglected Children’s Department requesting that they themselves be made the foster parents of children placed in care.  Nell Musgrove is the author of The Scars Remain (2013). 

Inquiries: Rosemary Francis: rfran@unimelb.edu.au