Talk: Female Orphan School stories

Talk: Compassionate interventions: entering and leaving the Female Orphan School Join historian Associate Professor Carol Liston from the University of Western Sydney as she explores some of the stories of those who ended up either in or out of the orphanage because of compassionate intervention. Associate Professor Carol Liston is an Australian historian who specialises in the history of early New South Wales (1788-1860). Her particular interest is the colonial development of the County of Cumberland (Greater Western Sydney), using land records, family history and surviving buildings to document the past. She is co-editor of the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society.