Michael Lambert
@GrandCamouflage
Researching histories of #NHS, #troubledfamilies, #forcedadoption & #histchild in Britain. Not #akindoftrouble. WP lead and lecturer @LancasterMedSch.
It's nearly a year since the Scottish and Welsh Governments apologised for the historic forced adoption of children of unmarried mothers. Business is unfinished until Westminster acts because they were ultimately responsible for policy and practice. Please sign and share:
Demand an Apology for Historic Forced Adoptions - Sign the Petition! chng.it/7bpg4nspqm via @UKChange
📣JOB ALERT 📣 The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has a vacancy for a Project Records Assistant, which will give experience of both Archives & Records Management. Closing date on 22 Aug. Come join the Heritage team! cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/rcsed/jobs/pro…
I wrote for Left Horizons about my discussion with Marie Arbuckle at my art exhibition on the subject of the State child trafficking left-horizons.com/2025/07/23/sta… @ArtBomb_UK @GrandCamouflage @breeda_murphy
EXCL: More than 30 MPs have written to Health Secretary Wes Streeting urging him to take action over the pregnancy drug DES, following our ongoing @itvnews investigation. MPs want an apology, public awareness and increased cancer screenings 👇 @SarahCorkerNews @ITVNewsPolitics
Police destruction of Orgreave papers - Archives & Records Association call for police documents to be preserved by law “There needs to be legislation to protect them, & prevent the kind of destruction that has happened in Northumbria.” #OrgreaveInquiry theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
LUCU members, vote now in the consultative ballot. Please vote YES and YES, so that we get a clear mandate to move to statutory ballot to take action in the autumn term to fight compulsory redundancies. #Lancaster @nw_ucu @ucu @SunilBanga11 @CatSmithMP @LCCLabour
Forcibly adopted children 'desperately need apology' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Fascinating to meet this brave group of adoptees, and those mothers forced into giving up their children in England from 1949-1976. My latest for @BBCNews #forcedadoption
“Change on this scale, in a system this complex, cannot be commanded from the centre”. Bang on @nedwards_1. I, for one, am glad the plan wasn’t preceded by the hollowing out of an intermediate governance tier to manage the centre-periphery tension. That would be foolhardy.
The 10 Year Health Plan is full of ideas, but how will they happen? Former Nuffield Trust chief executive @nedwards_1 has looked at what held back past reforms - a clear theory of change and humility about what central directives can achieve will be key. nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/has-…
Eeeekkkkk well that’s her all handed in, recordings done, and in the future she’ll be off touring round Scotland 🫶
Not Lies to Me and You by F. Henderson & L. Henderson ⬇ #adopteevoices #adopteerights #forcedadotpion #adopteerights @ScottishAAM #adopteerightsuk @JohnSwinney @JimFairlieLogie @RozMccall @NatalieDon_ @CYPCS @ThePromiseScot @whocaresscot
'We are still suffering': People affected by forced adoption demand government apology @itvnews itv.com/news/2025-07-1…
Government accused of 'sitting on' delayed report into learning disabled deaths, Investigations Editor @DanielHewittITV writes itv.com/news/2025-07-1…
Here is a piece by @SarahCorkerNews covering the protest and providing vignettes of the lifelong legacies of adoption for mother and child. Mobilising those previously shamed and silent into demanding the apology they are owed from the UK Government. itv.com/news/2025-07-1…
My thoughts with @AdultAdopteeMov, @AdoptionApology and everyone travelling to protest at @UKParliament today, and hand in petition at @10DowningStreet, to demand an overdue apology from the state for its central role in post-war forced adoption policies and practices.
“There’s a longstanding practice in UK politics to force disabled people to fight for basic rights – a kind of gladiatorial scrap in which the Colosseum is replaced by the set of Good Morning Britain.” Today’s col. on the fallout of more ‘welfare reform.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…