No Place Like Home: The Story of the Foundling Hospital is a new documentary revealing fascinating details of the lives of some of the 27,000 children who grew up at the Foundling Hospital between 1741-1954.
Watch it here:
coramstory.org.uk/no-place-like-…
Made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund London & South

Thank you Karin Wulf for your thoughts on my book! And Amy Harris' new book on singleness is going straight on my reading list, looks great

karinwulf.com/trove/early-mo…

1/ Start your week w/ always compelling Karin Wulf reflections on family history, here in the context of fascinating new books by Dr Kate Gibson and Amy Harris - or what I would call what often seems the margins but were in fact at the center.
karinwulf.com/trove/early-mo…

It was a pleasure and a privilege to be involved in a small way and share my research on the long history of kinship care for the Kinship Care Notebook - congrats More Than Grandparen, Art Matters Now, and the kinship families involved, it looks great!

I'm speaking about my research on the amazing records of the Edinburgh Orphan Hospital tomorrow, 6.30pm, for History Scotland

#HistoryofCare , #FamilyHistory , #histchild , #histed

Sign up here!
historyscotland.com/virtual-events…

A lovely write-up of the care history conference we held back in March -
'it’s important for this knowledge to be shared especially across countries. It provides a greater context and through shared learning it can help improve care for the future.'
Thanks Marissa Roxburgh!

Our Member Marissa Roxburgh has written a blog on her experience of attending the Compassion and Care Conference in Manchester. Find out more about her learnings here - ow.ly/ehGg50PIby3

New blog! History Of Parliament database was really useful for my work measuring stigma towards illegitimate children in the 18th C - turns out lots of MPs and aristos had illegitimate families whilst presiding over laws excluding them from power and privilege 👀

3 year postdoc at the University of Manchester to work on the conceptual history of ‘crisis’ in Nigerian economic thought. Deadline is soon, 24th August. For further information, email the PI Dr Gerardo Serra [email protected] jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

My article with 'Transactions' Royal Historical Society is now available online totally open access: 'Archival Intimacies: empathy and historical practice in 2023'.

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

#twitterstorians #empathy #history #letters #researchmethods #openaccess

Thank you Sarah Fox for a thoughtful and generous review of my book, Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834 in Women's History Review

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Congratulations Síobhra Aiken! It was an honour to be nominated for this year's Whitfield prize amongst such great company

A great write-up of the Compassion and Care conference held at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library back in March organised by me and Claudia Soares @claudiajsoares.bsky.social by researcher Jenni Räikkönen for SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social)

sshmedicine.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/the-ga…

A great start to London Foundling Hospital: An Online Conference, hearing from Claudia Soares @claudiajsoares.bsky.social Dr Kate Gibson Roberta Zanasi and Elina Saloranta about emotional histories.

Now listening to papers about foundling ‘families’ from Anthony Annakin-Smith, Janette Bright and Roy Sloane

I know this is a long shot, but our much-loved indoor cat Rosie escaped overnight in S11 #Sheffield & is lost. If people who have local contacts could please share this as widely as possible, I would be so grateful. Any sightings (or a capture) would be incredible. Help Sheffield

'When you scour the archives looking for traces of [ayahs' and amahs'] experiences and voices, you can find them. They are only traces, of course, but they are precious'

This 👇🏾 from Julia Laite ([email protected]) for History Workshop is a wonderful read:

historyworkshop.org.uk/article/travel…

📢Registration open📢
Registration is now open for the London Foundling Hospital History: An Online Conference 23-24 June.
To register: docs.google.com/forms/d/1-2nwR…
For details of the programme visit: lfhconference23.wixsite.com/site/programme

Having the most amazing time on this project, but I want to reach even more women! Please retweet/share amongst your networks if you can

Thanks so much!

Congrats Sarah Fox, James Fisher & Dr Kate Gibson! An excellent day for C18-ists 👏🏻

Coram's Foundling Hospital Archive needs your help to transcribe our vast collection of letters from women who, unable to provide for their babies, sought care for them at the Hospital. 56% currently transcribed. The Zooniverse Coram Foundling Museum zooniverse.org/projects/jojo3…