Join author Lucy Bland and Philomena Harrison as they discuss Bland’s book Britain’s Brown Babies.
They’re hosting a panel discussion around the theme of looked after children past and present, with a specific focus on how black children experience the care system.
The panel will include Lucy Bland, whose book Britain’s Brown Babies: The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War won the 2021 Social History Society book prize, senior lecturer in social work at Hope University Philomena Harrison, and two former residents of the Fazakerly cottage homes, Jim Howard and Brian Lawrenson.
Join them for what promises to be an insightful and compelling evening, in which these contemporary stories connect to those of the looked-after children from the Bluecoat’s history.