Publications & Resources

The Society produces informative publications about our heritage facilities and their historical significance. These materials offer insights into the Chapel’s architectural and cultural importance, the site’s role in the Fairbridge story, and our ongoing preservation efforts and community initiatives.

Books on Fairbridge Farm Schools & Child Migration

Books on Fairbridge Farm Schools & Child Migration:

  • Fairbridge Farm: the building of a farm school, Ruby Fairbridge, Paterson Press, 1948
  • Fairbridge: Empire and Child Migration, Geoffrey Sherington, Chris Jeffery, University of Western Australia Press, 1998
  • The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and Its Betrayal of Australia’s Child Migration, David Hill, Random House Australia, 2007
  • Marjorie: Too Afraid to Cry, Patricia Skidmore, Dundurn, 2012
  • Marjorie: The War Years, Patricia Skidmore, Dundurn, 2018
  • Places of Worship, Ellen Mackay, Sono Nis Press, 1991
  • Windows: British Child Migrants to Africa, Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial College, Editor Peter Gould, Fairbridge, 2001
  • Empty Cradles, change publishers to Corgi Books, 1995 and also Transworld Publishers, 1996
  • New Lives for Old, Roger Kershaw and Janet Sacks, The National Archives of the United Kingdom, 2008
  • English Bloods after dela Fosse add the words, Edited by Scott D. Shipman, Natural heritage Books, 2004
  • The Golden Bridge: Young Immigrants to Canada, 1833-1939, Marjorie Kohl, Natural Heritage Books, 2003
  • The Little Immigrants, Kenneth Bagnell, Macmillan of Canada, 1980
  • Lost Children of the Empire, Phillip Bean and Joy Melville, Unwin Hyman Limited, 1989
  • The Memories of a former Guttersnipe; Roddy Mackay, Park Place Publications, 2018
  • The Story of Kingsley Fairbridge, by Himself, Oxford university Press, 1927, Twelfth impression (Cape Town) 1959
  • Pinjarra—The Building of A Farm School, Ruby Fairbridge, Oxford University Press, London, 1937
  • Miracle of Fairbridge, Joan Halls, Hesperian Press 1999
  • Fairbridge Kid, John Lane, Freemantle Arts Centre Press
  • Rhondda Boy, Derrick Rees, private publication by D.R. Rees, 1992
  • Childhood Interrupted—A Child Migrants Journey, Evelyn Donnelly Toms (Blurbbook) 2014