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This study investigates the motives for the establishment of the Fairbridge child migration scheme, examines its history in Australia and Canada, and outlines the experiences of many of the former child migrants.
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TV celebrity judge Farmer Chris on Channel 5 Star's Celebs On The Farm and regularly featured farmer on Channel 5'sThe Yorkshire Vet, Chris Jeffery tells his remarkable life story, born a farmer's son who became a pig farm manager,milkman, insurance adviser, meat humper, animal nutrition representative to farm supply shop owner, before a careerin television beckoned at 60.Chris' amazing journey has taken him from a village near York and a now distant world of Shire horses, girls, rugby and hisclose circle of pals to a life map that includes Suffolk, Northern Ireland, a Russian love affair, owning a racehorse and proposing to his third wife in the Indian Ocean. Today he is back with his true first love - animals - running a rare breeds farm with his beloved pedigree Whitebred Shorthorn herd and his plum pudding pigs.Follow Chris' highs and lows as he sometimes lurches from crisis to crisis but always comes out smiling - and how a comic moment captured on Channel 5 sealed his opportunity to become the man who calls the shots on the fate of the famous on a celebrity show that has recently been nominated in a series of TV awards.
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Celebs On The Farm judge (C5 & MTV) and The Yorkshire Vet regular (C5) Farmer Chris follows up his acclaimed autobiography Farming, Celebs & Plum Pudding Pigs - The Making of Farmer Chris with tales of hilarity, heartbreak, happiness, hopelessness and his own refreshing honesty, best summed up with his personal assessment 'Had I thoughtthis through?'Big Tales From My Little Farm sees Farmer Chris at home in North Yorkshire with his wife Farmer Kate on their 40-acre farm and tells of how Chris finally realised his dream of becoming a farmer and then realised just how much he had to learn.Laugh out loud humour, cry out loud despair and varying degrees of astonishment, frustration, achievement and disbelief follow as Chris looks on as a massive cattle feeding ring falls of the back of his trailer as he is going uphill, his tractor steering fails on a country lane, his sheep escape again along with his goats, his cattle win major prizes, his sow only has a litter of one piglet and his Jack Russell terrier eats a whole Terry's Chocolate Orange!Chris' good friend Julian Norton (The Yorkshire Vet) provides the foreword plus an additional chapter. Farmer Kate provides the words 'Oh Christopher!'