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Why the UK government needed to apologise for its role in historical forced adoptions in England

Why the UK government needed to apologise for its role in historical forced adoptions in England

In a religious culture rooted in shame, up to half a million children in the UK and Ireland were put up for adoption without their mothers’ consent.

02.07.2026 7

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Lindsey Earner-Byrne

Why the UK government needed to apologise for its role in historic forced adoptions in England

Why the UK government needed to apologise for its role in historic forced adoptions in England

Between 300,000 and 500,000 children in the UK and Ireland were put up for adoption without their mothers’ consent.

02.07.2026 5

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Lindsey Earner-Byrne

Ireland’s Easter Rising: archives reveal hardship faced by the families of those killed in 1916

Much historical focus was on those who died fighting for Irish independence but researchers now have tools to dissect the impact of this period on...

07.04.2026 10

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Lindsey earner-byrne