Selected Reading List
Primary Sources
Please consult this guide, courtesy of the South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society:
Grant, Elspeth, Tony Aldous and Richard Mansfield, 'British youth migrants: the South Australian Government’s farm apprenticeship scheme, 1913–14’, South Australian Genealogist, vol. 35, no. 3, 2008.
Please contact me if you want further help or advice (especially if you are located outside of South Australia) - I am more than happy to assist.
Secondary Sources
Youth Migration – South Australia
Adams, Prue, 'Hard Labour', Landline, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2008.
Aldous, Anthony and Richard Mansfield, Beginnings: The Story of the Beltana Boys, Scouts Australia – South Australian Branch, Adelaide, 2008.
Charles, Blanche, ‘Was somebody in your family a “Barwell Boy”?’, Family Tree Magazine, April/May 2005.
Christo, Cosmos, ‘The South Australian boy-immigration scheme, 1913–29’, unpublished Honours thesis, School of History, University of Adelaide, 1974.
Davis, John, ‘Barwell's battlers’, History Matters, vol. 15, no. 3, 2005, 1–4.
——, ‘The Barwell Boys: True battlers’, History Matters, vol. 16, no. 1, 2006, 4–7.
Dyer, Alfred Victor, A New Life Down Under, Millicent Print, Millicent, 1996.
Grant, Elspeth, ‘“Opportunity for boys to become farmers”: The South Australian Government’s scheme for the emigration of British lads, 1913–14, unpublished Honours thesis, Discipline of History, University of Adelaide, 2007.
——, ‘Homeward bound?’, Wartime, April 2008.
——, ‘The other Lewis Grant’, South Australian Genealogist, vol. 35, no. 1, 2008 (appears here courtesy of the South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society).
——, Tony Aldous and Richard Mansfield, 'British youth migrants: the South Australian Government’s farm apprenticeship scheme, 1913–14’, South Australian Genealogist, vol. 35, no. 3, 2008 (appears here courtesy of the South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society).
McLean, Lydia, The Barwell Boy, Damson, Melbourne, 2007.
Rayner, Paul, ‘Government assisted boy immigration into South Australia for farm apprenticeship, 1911–28, including the “Barwell Boy” scheme’, unpublished Advanced Diploma of Education Administration thesis, Adelaide College of Advanced Education, 1973.
Rich, Joe, The Lochiel Apprentice, self-published, 1974 (contact Joe's daughter Rita Mulcahy).
Rivett, Susan, ‘Barwell Boys or boy immigrants?’, South Australian Genealogist, vol. 20, no. 1, 1993, 15–24.
Juvenile Migration Australia
Buti, Antonio, ‘British child migration to Australia: History, Senate Inquiry and Responsibilities’, Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, vol. 9, no. 4 2002.
Coldrey, Barry, Good British Stock: Child and Youth Migration to Australia, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 1999.
Gill, Alan, Likely Lads and Lasses: Youth Migration to Australia, 1911–83, Southwood, Marrickville (NSW), 2005.
——, Orphans of the Empire: The Shocking Story of Child Migration to Australia, Millennium Books, Alexandria (NSW), 1997.
Hill, David, The Forgotten Children, Random House, Sydney, 2007.
Immigration Museum (Melbourne), Celebrating World Cultures Through Scouting exhibition, 2007.
Jenkins, Michael (dir.), The Leaving of Liverpool, Australian & British Broadcasting Corporations, 1992.
Langfield, Michele, ‘Voluntarism, salvation, and rescue: British juvenile migration to Australia and Canada, 1890–1939’, Journal of Commonwealth and Imperial History, vol. 32, no .2, 2004, 86–114.
New South Wales Migration Heritage Centre, Fields of Memories: The Scheyville Training Farm and Migration Accommodation Centre, 1911-64 exhibition, 2006.
Sherington, Geoffrey, ‘“A better class of boy’: The Big Brother movement’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 33, no. 120, 2002, 267–85.
——, ‘“Suffer little children”: British child migration as a study of journeyings between centre and periphery’, History of Education, vol. 32, no. 5, 2003, 461–76.
——, ‘British youth and empire settlement: The Dreadnought boys in New South Wales’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 82, no. 1, 1996, 1–22.
——, and Chris Jeffrey, Fairbridge: Empire and Child Migration, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands (WA), 1998.
Juvenile Migration
Bean, Philip, and Joy Melville, Lost Children of the Empire, Unwin Hyman, London, 1989.
Gorman, Daniel, ‘Practical imperialism: Thomas Sedgwick and imperial emigration’ in Daniel Gorman, Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2006.
Humphreys, Margaret, Empty Cradles, Doubleday, London, 1994.
Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Science, The Golden Bridge: Child Migration from Scotland to Canada, 1869–1939, 2008 (online exhibition).
Kohli, Marjorie, The Golden Bridge: Young Immigrants to Canada, 1833–1939, Natural Heritage Books, Toronto, 2003.
Mack, Joanna (dir.), Lost Children of the Empire, Granada, 1989.
Neff, Charlotte, ‘Youth in Canada West: A case study of Red Hill Farm School emigrants, 1854–68’, Journal of Family History, vol. 25, no. 4, 2000, 432–91.
Simpson, Donald, ‘Thomas Sedgwick and juvenile migration’, Royal Commonwealth Society Library Notes, no. 71, 1962, 1–3.
Migration to Australia – Early 20th Century
Constantine, Stephen, ‘Empire migration and social reform, 1880–1950’, in Colin Pooley and Ian Whyte (eds), Migrants, Emigrants and Immigrants: A Social History of Migration, Routledge, London, 1991, 62–83.
Langfield, Michele, ‘Recruiting immigrants: The First World War and Australian immigration’, in Richard Nile (ed.), War and Other Catastrophes, Journal of Australian Studies, special edition no. 60, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia (Qld), 1999.
——, More People Imperative: Immigration to Australia, 1901–39, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 1999.
Pope, David, ‘Assisted migration and federal-state relations, 1901–30’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 28, 1982, 23–50.
Richards, Eric, Destination Australia: Migration to Australia Since 1901, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2008.
Roe, Michael, Australia, Britain and Migration, 1915-40: A Study of Desperate Hopes, Cambridge UP, Cambridge, 1995.
Williams, Keith, ‘“A way out of our troubles": The politics of empire settlement, 1900–22’, in Stephen Constantine (ed.), Emigrants and Empire: British Settlement in the Dominions between the Wars, Manchester UP, Manchester, 1990, 22–44.
History of Childhood – Edwardian Era
Hendrick, Harry, Child Welfare: Historical Dimensions, Contemporary Debate, Policy Press, Bristol, 2003.
——, Images of Youth: Age, Class and the Male Youth Problem, 1880–1920, Oxford UP, Oxford, 1990.
Russell, Charles, and Lilian Rigby, The Making of the Criminal, Macmillan, London, 1906.
——, Working Lads' Clubs, 1908, A. & C. Black, London, 1932.
South Australian History – Early 20th Century
Hirst, John, Adelaide and the Country, 1870–1917: Their Social and Political Relationship, Melbourne UP, Carlton, 1973.
Kwan, Elizabeth, Living in South Australia: A Social History, South Australian Government, Adelaide, 1987.
Migration Museum (Adelaide), From Many Places: The History and Cultural Traditions of South Australian People, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1995.
Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA), History of Agriculture in South Australia website.
Richards, Eric (ed.), Flinders History of South Australia: Social History, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1986.
Williams, Michael, The Making of the South Australian Landscape, Academic Press, New York, 1974.
Australian History – Early 20th Century
Facey, AB, A Fortunate Life, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 1981.
Hicks, Neville. This Sin and Scandal: Australia's Population Debate, 1891–1911, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1978.
Lloyd, Clement and Jacqueline Rees, The Last Shilling: A History of Repatriation in Australia, Melbourne UP, Carlton, 1994.
McKernan, Michael, The Australian People and the Great War, Nelson, West Melbourne, 1980.
Ross, Jane, The Myth of the Digger: The Australian Soldier in Two World Wars, Hale & Ironmonger, Sydney 1985.