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Helen Berry

Orphans of Empire

The Fate of London's Foundlings

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Eighteenth-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this thronging metropolis, Captain Thomas Coram witnessed one of the city's most shocking sights-the widespread abandonment of infant corpses by the roadside. He could have just passed by. Instead, he devised a plan to create a charity that would care for these infants; one that was to have enormous consequences for childrenborn into povertyin Britain over the next two hundred years.Orphans of Empire tells the story of what happened to the thousands of children who were raised at the London Foundling… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-107612-1
  • EAN: 9780191076121
  • Produktnummer: 29884784
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'131 KB
  • Abbildungen: 20 black and white illustrations

Über den Autor


Helen Berry is Professor of British History at Newcastle University. She studied history at the University of Durham and Jesus College, Cambridge, and has published extensively on the social history of Georgian Britain. A prizewinning Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, rphans of Empire is her third book. www.helenberry.net

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