London's Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital - Dame Gillian Pugh
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 17 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 two hundred years, thousands of children were brought to the Foundling Hospital by mothers who were unable to look after their illegitimate children. There they were provided with excellent health care and education fit for their station in life before apprenticing the boys to learn a trade and the girls to domestic service.
In this lecture Dame Gillian Pugh, former chief executive of Coram, offers a fascinating history of the first children's charity and charts the rise of this incredible institution. It examines the attitude towards foundlings as illegitimate children over the years and brings us up to date on the innovative work of the charity today, now known simply as Coram.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website.
William Hogarth and the Foundling Hospital
The Foundling Hospital was not only the UK’s first children’s charity but also lays claim to be the UK’s first public art gallery. Caro Howell, Director of the Foundling Museum, tells how artist William Hogarth’s gift of a painting — and his subsequent collaboration with Thomas Coram, the founder of the Hospital — helped save children’s lives and laid the seedbed for the contemporary art scene as we know it.
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Foundling Hospital, built 1742, Bloomsbury, London.
H. Roberts, 1749
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'Fleet Prison'
by Thomas Rowlandson, and by Auguste Charles Pugin, aquatinted by Joseph Constantine Stadler, published by Rudolph Ackermann
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 1 September 1808
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A Harlot's Progress: Plate 4, Moll beats hemp in Bridewell Prison
William Hogarth, 1732
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A Harlot's Progress: Plate 2, Moll is now a kept woman, the mistress of a wealthy merchant William Hogarth 1732
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Portrait of a Young Man
Pompeo Batoni, 1760–1765
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Richard Cumberland
George Romney, 1776
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Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of chapel
John Sanders, 1774
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Self Portrait
Allan Ramsay, 1713
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1747-1749
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Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough, 1758-1759
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Kate Middleton arrives at the Foundling Museum
The Duchess of Cambridge is paying a visit to the Foundling Museum in London, just an hour after leaving an earlier engagement with the Queen. Kate, 37, appeared in good spirits as she arrived at the museum, which explores the history of the Foundling Hospital, the UK's first children's charity and first public art gallery. The outing comes hours after Kate was announced as the charity's patron.
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Bedrooms of London - Foundling Museum
Photographic exhibition documenting the living conditions of disadvantaged children in London.
In partnership with The Childhood Trust, Bedrooms of London presents a new body of work by photographer Katie Wilson highlighting the damaging consequences for children arising from the shortage of social housing in London.
Focusing on the spaces in which children are sleeping, the photographs are shown alongside first-hand narratives from families collected and written by Isabella Walker, and offer a poignant insight into the lives and experiences of children living in poverty across London.
In a city where extreme poverty and wealth exist side-by-side, Bedrooms of London makes visible the often shocking and unseen reality of home life for the 700,000 children currently living below the poverty line in our capital, and challenges the prejudices and stereotypes associated with child poverty.
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Venue: The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ
Dates: 08 Feb 2019 — 05 May 2019
Times: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00-17:00, Sunday 11:00-17:00, Monday closed
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Non Touristy Things to Do In London - Dickens Museum and Foundlings
This is a very interesting area and a lovely place to visit for non touristy things to do in London like the Charles Dickens Museum and Foundling Museum, just a stone's throw from Lambs Conduit Street.
Dickens and his wife moved here in 1837 and he wrote Oliver Twist and Pickwick Papers here. They’ve got a bunch of his writing materials, paintings furniture and much more….
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