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Book Title
London's Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hosp
ISBN
9780752442440
Subject Area
Children & Family, Social Services
Publication Name
London's Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital
Publisher
T.H.E. Hi-Story Press LTD
Subject
History
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
198 mm
Author
Gillian Pugh
Item Weight
350 g
Item Width
125 mm
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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In 1739 Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight of children dying on the dung heaps of London. These children, mostly foundlings and orphans, were products of a poverty-stricken society where the attitude towards babies born outside of wedlock meant a life of rejection and inferiority. After seventeen years of campaigning, Coram managed to persuade sufficient 'persons of quality and distinction' to support his petition to the king to grant a Royal Charter for the building of the Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury. Over the next few years, children were brought to the Foundling Hospital for shelter. There they were provided with excellent healthcare and an education fit for their station in life, before apprenticing the boys to learn a trade and the girls to domestic service. This fascinating history of the first children's charity charts the rise of this incredible institution, and examines the attitude towards foundlings as illegitimate children over the years. Reliving the experience through the voices of past members of the hospital, this book is a fascinating social history of one of London's worst cases of poverty.

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T.H.E. Hi-Story Press LTD
ISBN-13
9780752442440
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Number of Pages
192 Pages
Publication Name
London's Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Children & Family, Social Services
Author
Gillian Pugh
Format
Hardcover

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198 mm
Item Weight
350 g
Item Width
125 mm

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United Kingdom
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Gillian Pugh

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