Orphans of empire: the fate of London’s foundlings First Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0191076120
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780191076121
• Author: Helen Berry 

Orphans of Empire tells the story of what happened to the thousands of children who were raised at the London Foundling Hospital, Coram’s brainchild, which opened in 1741 and grew to become the most famous charity in Georgian England. It provides vivid insights into the lives and fortunes of London’s poorest children, from the earliest days of the Foundling Hospital to the mid-Victorian era, when Charles Dickens was moved by his observations of the charity’s work to campaign on behalf of orphans. Through the lives of London’s foundlings, this book provides readers with a street-level insight into the wider global history of a period of monumental change in British history as the nation grew into the world’s leading superpower. Some foundling children were destined for Britain’s “outer Empire” overseas, but many more toiled in the “inner Empire”, labouring in the cotton mills and factories of northern England at the dawn of the new industrial age.

Table contents:

1. Empire

2. ‘My Darling Project’

3. A Fashionable Cause

4. Foundling Education

5. Finding Work

6. Industry and Idleness

7. Cruelty and Kindness

8. Outrageous Fortune

9. Epilogue: Welfare, Philanthropy, and the Future

Acknowledgements

Notes

1. Empire

2. ‘My Darling Project’

3. A Fashionable Cause

4. Foundling Education

5. Finding Work

6. Industry and Idleness

7. Cruelty and Kindness

8. Outrageous Fortune

9. Epilogue: Welfare, Philanthropy, and the Future

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