Works
Handel’s gifts by Rebecca Dowman
George Frideric Handel’s Will, Codicil three, 1757 © The Foundling Museum The great and good Mr Handel: The story behind the…
These Keys by Faye Sharpe
Thomas Parker, Keyboard of the Foundling Hospital Chapel organ, 1768 © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story I…
Who am I? by Hester Thomas
Famille rose punchbowl, mid-eighteenth century © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story One summer’s day, ten years ago, I…
C Brooking pinx. A name in the shadow by Sam Webb
Charles Brooking, A Flagship before the Wind, under Easy Sail, with a Cutter, a Ketch and other Vessels, 1754 ©…
An imagined correspondence by Sue Evans
Thomas Hudson, Theodore Jacobsen, 1746 © Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum An older ad-age: The story behind the…
Captain Thomas Coram by Afy Nou
William Hogarth, Captain Thomas Coram, 1740 © Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum The story behind the story Going…
Warm Blooded (Bloodline) by Emily Cracknell
Sir John Everett Millais, Luther Holden, c.1880 © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story I found myself at…
The Watcher in the Wings by Fiona Egglestone
Benjamin West, Christ Presenting a Little Child, 1801 © Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum The story behind…
Double lock by John Simmons
Foundling Hospital Token, eighteenth century © The Foundling Museum Token meanings: The story behind the story My first thought, when…
The Foundling Girl by Joan Lennon
David Watson Stevenson, The Foundling Girl, 1871 © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story 1. I remember when Jamila…
Side by Side, by Mike Reed
Pew from the Foundling Hospital Chapel © Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum The story behind the story…
Scrolling Past by Irene Lofthouse
Edward Ives, Carved wooden cartouche, mid-eighteenth century © Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum The story behind the story…
This is Caroline Collingwood’s token by Kate B Hall
Circle of John Downman, Mrs Caroline Collingwood, mid-eighteenth century © The Foundling Museum Someone’s mother: The story behind the story…
Let Them Be, Dear Husband | 1904 by Rob Self-Pierson
William Carter, Mrs Patrick Forbes, 1906 © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story Cecil Rhodes – one of the…
Spirit of the staircase by Heidi Williamson
Foundling Hospital Staircase from the Boys’ Wing of the Foundling Hospital © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story…
Blank child, received: Baby 18,607 by Elen Lewis
Retractable pencil in case, c.1872 © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story I don’t know what it’s like…
The Twins by Roshni Goyate
William Hogarth, The March of the Guards to Finchley, 1750 © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story Hogarth’s March…
John and Emma Brownlow by Viven Jones
Emma Brownlow, The Foundling Restored to its Mother (detail), 1864 © Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum …
Font by Bridget Waters
Eleanor Coade, Font from the Foundling Hospital Chapel, 1804 © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story Names. Names,…
Uniformity by Maeve O’Sullivan
Foundling uniform, twentieth century © Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum A moment to pause: the story…
Unknown matron’s mallet by SJ Butler
Matron’s mallet, eighteenth century © Coram The story behind the story When I found out I would be writing about…
Foundless by Jessie Simmons
Nathaniel Parr after Samuel Wale, An Exact Representation of the Form and Manner In Which Exposed and Deserted Young Children…
The Kindness of Routine by Wendy Jones
John Ellicot, Longcase clock, c.1750 © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story I went along for the tricorn…
Lost and Found by Helen Jones
Donation box, mid-eighteenth century © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story Briefly, in the early 1990s, I lived at…
Valediction by Meg Carter
Drainpipe from the Foundling Hospital, eighteenth century © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story On being presented with…
Before the Court by Andrew Motion
The Interior of the Court Room © The Foundling Museum The story behind the story The reconstruction of the Court…
