Jasmine Bidwell interviewed by Virginia Macleod in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5717502
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Bidwell, Jasmine, 1947-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2011
- 1 sound file (ca. 71 min.)
- Series:
- Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Summary:
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Jasmine Bidwell, born in London (1947), discusses her parents and siblings; early memories of family happiness; holidays and car trips; schooling; training as a hairdresser; meeting her first husband and having a child at age 19; working as an actor and model; meeting Peter Bidwell (1975), an Australian who came to be her second husband; marrying and moving to Australia (1976); happy memories of her first impressions of Australia; living by the ocean in Narrabeen, N.S.W.; working with children with special needs at a hospital school; her daughter's relationship with her new husband; homesickness and missing her parents; a visit from her parents; difficulties in her relationship with her husband; returning to England (1981); finding work in a nursery; her husband increasingly revealing information about his childhood experiences in an orphanage; her extended family's love of and support for her husband; her husband's relationship with his mother; visiting Nazareth House (Romsey, U.K.); her husband's childhood memories of Nazareth House; visiting Clontarf Boys Orphanage, W.A.; her husband's childhood memories of Clontarf; visiting Aquinas College, Perth; her feelings about the Australian and British Apologies; religion; Australia and cultural identity.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 19 September 2011 in London, U.K.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.) available.
- Subject:
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- Bidwell, Jasmine, 1947- -- Interviews
- Bidwell, Peter, 1944-
- Clontarf Boys Orphanage (Waterford, W.A.) -- History
- Children -- Institutional care -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Children -- Institutional care -- England -- History -- 20th century
- Children -- Institutional care -- Australia -- Psychological aspects
- Wives -- Interviews
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- 20th century
- Other authors/contributors:
- Macleod, Virginia 1948-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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- Until 2081 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2011
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