{"id":5365,"date":"2016-01-11T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T10:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5365"},"modified":"2016-01-15T12:39:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T12:39:39","slug":"gordon-lynch-talks-about-britains-child-migrants-at-bush-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/01\/11\/gordon-lynch-talks-about-britains-child-migrants-at-bush-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Lynch talks about Britain&#8217;s child migrants at Bush Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/lynch.html\">Professor Gordon Lynch<\/a>, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, will be taking part in a panel discussion about the British child migration schemes at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bushtheatre.co.uk\/\">Bush Theatre<\/a> this evening, Monday 11 January). The discussion is linked to the critically-acclaimed play, <em>Forget Me Not<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/moc\/exhibitions-and-displays\/eon-their-own\/\">On Their Own&#8217; exhibition<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/moc\/\">V&amp;A Museum of Childhood<\/a> and the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/news\/index.html?view=5038\">Ballads of Child Migration<\/a><\/em>\u00a0CD\u00a0music project in which Professor Lynch was involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/01\/11\/gordon-lynch-talks-about-britains-child-migrants-at-bush-theatre\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":5366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5403,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions\/5403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}