Tiny Retraces African and Asian Children at London’s Foundling Hospital

Name: Tiny Retraces African and Asian Children at London’s Foundling Hospital
Start: 2024-10-18T14:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-18T16:30:00+01:00
Location: 40 Northampton Road,London,EC1R 0HB,GB

Schedule

Fri Oct 18 2024 at 02:30 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

40 Northampton Road,London,EC1R 0HB,GB | London, EN

A joint event with the Foundling Museum
Another chance to archival material from the foundling hospital collection originally selected for the Tiny Traces exhibition. Includes a behind the scenes tour of The London Archives and a private view of the Founding Museums Galleries.
Explore newly uncovered stories of African and Asian children in the care of the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital.
Tiny Traces presented a rich history of London life from 1739-1820, a key period in Britain’s colonial past. It followed the stories of more than a dozen children from the African and Asian diasporas through personal items, physical artefacts, works of art and archival documents. Visitors could also explore the circumstances surrounding their admission to the Hospital, including the parents’ lives, the Hospital’s ties to Empire and the wider picture of colonial Britain.