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Orphans of Empire The Fate of London's Foundlings

Berry Helen
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198758488
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
518 gr
Høyde
226 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
36 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Berry Helen

Biografisk notat

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, this is her third book. www.helenberry.net

Orphans of Empire The Fate of London's Foundlings

Berry Helen
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
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clear and instructive ... rphans of Empire makes a significant contribution to the history of the Foundling Hospital

Susannah Ottaway, Cultural and Social History

A fascinating, beautifully written and deeply sensitive story...

Gerard DeGroot, The Times, History Books of the Year 2019

A creative, illuminating history of how Britain's poorest children survived and sometimes served its empire.

Helen Parr, History Today, Books of the Year 2019

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... her honest subjectivity makes this a better book. It has a soul. Orphans of Empire is a fascinating, beautifully written story about an 18th century charity, but also a book that asks difficult questions about welfare that remain relevant today.

Gerard DeGroot, The Times

Overturns preconceptions ... Orphans of Empire is noteworthy for Berry's meticulous examination of the records that document individual appeals and interventions. Helen Berry has produced a remarkable study, informative and impassioned.

Jenny Uglow, The Times Literary Supplement

Her well organised, workman-like account concentrates on the 18th century and does an important job of clearing a way through a mass of repetitious detail, while acknowledging how telling and human that detail is. She is particularly good at interweaving a surviving autobiographical account by one foundling, George King, with the records of other lives.

Fiona Sampson, The Spectator

The history of the Foundling Hospital is well known, but for those coming new to the story Berry's is a fresh and insightful introduction. Her pace is lively and her touch is light ... Helen Berry's book is a welcome addition to a crowded field. It offers an up-to-date and authoritative history of Thomas Coram's hospital that is at its most valuable when focusing on the life stories of the foundlings themselves.

Gerry White, Literary Review

[Berry's] study is an exemplary piece of objective historical research...

John Pridmore, Church Times

Orphans of Empire is a super book, nicely produced, with good black & white illustrations, clear endnotes and indexing, and I recommend it.

Mike Patterson, London Historians

An excellent book ... There is a Foundling Museum at Brunswick Square and to my shame I'd never visited it until the book inspired me to go along...

Peter Gruner, Islington Tribune

... a highly readable, hybrid popular-academic study of the London Foundling Hospital ... This book will delight readers of popular history and provides sufficient academic content to satisfy academic audiences too. It is an important book on the history of childhood, charity, education, apprenticeship, the metropolis, and empire. It is nicely illustrated and good value for money.

Samantha Williams, Family & Community History

Orphans of Empire is a heartbreaking read that is also absolutely unputdownable. Helen Berry brings the 18th century to glorious life in a way that few historians can match, every book of hers is a treasure.

Dr. Amanda Foreman, FRSA

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 children born into poverty in 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 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. Through extensive archival research, Helen Berry uncovers previously untold stories of what happened to former foundlings, including the suffering and small triumphs they experienced as child workers during the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution. Sometimes, using many different fragments of evidence, the voices of the children themselves emerge. Extracts from George King's autobiography, the only surviving first-hand account written by a Foundling Hospital child born in the eighteenth century, published here for the first time, provide touching insights into how he came to terms with his upbringing. Remarkably he played a part in Trafalgar, one of the most iconic battles in British Naval history. His personal courage and resilience in overcoming the disadvantages of his birth form a lasting testimony to the strength of the human spirit.
Les mer
The fascinating story of what happened to the orphaned and abandoned children of the London Foundling Hospital, and the consequences of Georgian philanthropy. From serving Britain's growing global empire in the Royal Navy, to the suffering of child workers in the Industrial Revolution, the Foundling Hospital was no simple act of charity.
Les mer
Preface 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 Select Bibliography Notes Index
Les mer
Shortlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize
The fascinating story of the children who survived life in London's Foundling Hospital A unique 'bottom up' view of Britain during a moment of monumental transformation and pursuit of empire, including: the Battle of Trafalgar; the growth of London; and the rise of factory employment Includes first hand accounts by former foundling children, to reveal the suffering and small triumphs they experienced during a period of great social upheaval A new perspective on the history of charities in supplying child workers during the Industrial Revolution, including the changing ideas of the era on how to best tackle poverty
Les mer
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, this is her third book. www.helenberry.net
Les mer
The fascinating story of the children who survived life in London's Foundling Hospital A unique 'bottom up' view of Britain during a moment of monumental transformation and pursuit of empire, including: the Battle of Trafalgar; the growth of London; and the rise of factory employment Includes first hand accounts by former foundling children, to reveal the suffering and small triumphs they experienced during a period of great social upheaval A new perspective on the history of charities in supplying child workers during the Industrial Revolution, including the changing ideas of the era on how to best tackle poverty
Les mer

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clear and instructive ... rphans of Empire makes a significant contribution to the history of the Foundling Hospital

Susannah Ottaway, Cultural and Social History

A fascinating, beautifully written and deeply sensitive story...

Gerard DeGroot, The Times, History Books of the Year 2019

A creative, illuminating history of how Britain's poorest children survived and sometimes served its empire.

Helen Parr, History Today, Books of the Year 2019

Se alle

... her honest subjectivity makes this a better book. It has a soul. Orphans of Empire is a fascinating, beautifully written story about an 18th century charity, but also a book that asks difficult questions about welfare that remain relevant today.

Gerard DeGroot, The Times

Overturns preconceptions ... Orphans of Empire is noteworthy for Berry's meticulous examination of the records that document individual appeals and interventions. Helen Berry has produced a remarkable study, informative and impassioned.

Jenny Uglow, The Times Literary Supplement

Her well organised, workman-like account concentrates on the 18th century and does an important job of clearing a way through a mass of repetitious detail, while acknowledging how telling and human that detail is. She is particularly good at interweaving a surviving autobiographical account by one foundling, George King, with the records of other lives.

Fiona Sampson, The Spectator

The history of the Foundling Hospital is well known, but for those coming new to the story Berry's is a fresh and insightful introduction. Her pace is lively and her touch is light ... Helen Berry's book is a welcome addition to a crowded field. It offers an up-to-date and authoritative history of Thomas Coram's hospital that is at its most valuable when focusing on the life stories of the foundlings themselves.

Gerry White, Literary Review

[Berry's] study is an exemplary piece of objective historical research...

John Pridmore, Church Times

Orphans of Empire is a super book, nicely produced, with good black & white illustrations, clear endnotes and indexing, and I recommend it.

Mike Patterson, London Historians

An excellent book ... There is a Foundling Museum at Brunswick Square and to my shame I'd never visited it until the book inspired me to go along...

Peter Gruner, Islington Tribune

... a highly readable, hybrid popular-academic study of the London Foundling Hospital ... This book will delight readers of popular history and provides sufficient academic content to satisfy academic audiences too. It is an important book on the history of childhood, charity, education, apprenticeship, the metropolis, and empire. It is nicely illustrated and good value for money.

Samantha Williams, Family & Community History

Orphans of Empire is a heartbreaking read that is also absolutely unputdownable. Helen Berry brings the 18th century to glorious life in a way that few historians can match, every book of hers is a treasure.

Dr. Amanda Foreman, FRSA

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 children born into poverty in 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 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. Through extensive archival research, Helen Berry uncovers previously untold stories of what happened to former foundlings, including the suffering and small triumphs they experienced as child workers during the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution. Sometimes, using many different fragments of evidence, the voices of the children themselves emerge. Extracts from George King's autobiography, the only surviving first-hand account written by a Foundling Hospital child born in the eighteenth century, published here for the first time, provide touching insights into how he came to terms with his upbringing. Remarkably he played a part in Trafalgar, one of the most iconic battles in British Naval history. His personal courage and resilience in overcoming the disadvantages of his birth form a lasting testimony to the strength of the human spirit.
Les mer
The fascinating story of what happened to the orphaned and abandoned children of the London Foundling Hospital, and the consequences of Georgian philanthropy. From serving Britain's growing global empire in the Royal Navy, to the suffering of child workers in the Industrial Revolution, the Foundling Hospital was no simple act of charity.
Les mer
Preface 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 Select Bibliography Notes Index
Les mer
Shortlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize
The fascinating story of the children who survived life in London's Foundling Hospital A unique 'bottom up' view of Britain during a moment of monumental transformation and pursuit of empire, including: the Battle of Trafalgar; the growth of London; and the rise of factory employment Includes first hand accounts by former foundling children, to reveal the suffering and small triumphs they experienced during a period of great social upheaval A new perspective on the history of charities in supplying child workers during the Industrial Revolution, including the changing ideas of the era on how to best tackle poverty
Les mer
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, this is her third book. www.helenberry.net
Les mer
The fascinating story of the children who survived life in London's Foundling Hospital A unique 'bottom up' view of Britain during a moment of monumental transformation and pursuit of empire, including: the Battle of Trafalgar; the growth of London; and the rise of factory employment Includes first hand accounts by former foundling children, to reveal the suffering and small triumphs they experienced during a period of great social upheaval A new perspective on the history of charities in supplying child workers during the Industrial Revolution, including the changing ideas of the era on how to best tackle poverty
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198758488
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
518 gr
Høyde
226 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
36 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Berry Helen

Biografisk notat

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, this is her third book. www.helenberry.net

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