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Paperback London's Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital Book
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ISBN: 1803991879

ISBN13: 9781803991870

London's Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital

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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...

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