Professor Gordon Lynch, from the Department of Religious Studies, will be taking part in a panel discussion about the British child migration schemes at the Bush Theatre this evening, Monday 11 January). The discussion is linked to the critically-acclaimed play, Forget Me Not, currently running at the Bush Theatre. Starring Eleanor Bron, the play traces the story of a former British child migrant, Gerry, about to be re-united with his birth-mother in England, having believed for most of his life that he was an orphan.
The play has further raised public awareness of the history and effects of these child migration schemes, following the national publicity already given to the ‘On Their Own’ exhibition at the V&A Museum of Childhood and the Ballads of Child Migration CD music project in which Professor Lynch was involved.