Podcast tells gripping story of Esther’s journey to find her birth mother
In April Spotify released an eight-episode podcast entitled ‘Looking for Esther’ and it tells the story of Esther Robertson, who was born in 1961 and is the daughter of a white Edinburgh woman and a black American serviceman who was stationed in Kirknewton. Click...
110 years by Gary Clapton
110 years by Gary Clapton We are one of the oldest Edinburgh charities in existence. We’ve been stymied from celebrating our 110-year anniversary so often in the last year that we’ve decided to go ahead this month with as much “virtual” activity as possible. Our roots...
‘Forgotten Scots’, made to give babies up for adoption in 1960’s
‘Forgotten Scots’, made to give babies up for adoption in 1960’s A 79-year-old mother from the United States has launched a desperate search for her son she gave up for adoption in Scotland in the 1960s and has highlighted the plight of the...