Meet Lydia 🌷 Lydia Carmichael was a former pupil of the Foundling Hospital, who entered the Hospital in 1933. Until 2021, there were no portraits of named foundlings or former pupils on the walls of the Museum. To change that, Lydia was one of five living former pupils who sat for five leading photographers. Lydia sat for David Moore in her former classroom at the Foundling Hospital in Berkhamsted, now a school. This footage is from The Sitting, which recorded three of the encounters between si

Duchess of Cambridge arrives at the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury

William and Kate take part in therapy session at Foundling Museum

Tokens - Foundling Museum

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A token of love and care❣️⁠ ⁠ Between the 1740s to 1760s, mothers leaving their babies at the Foundling Hospital would also leave a small object - a token - to identify their child, in the hope they could one day be reunited. ⁠ ⁠ Historian Janette Bright shares more on the stories behind these precious objects in our collection, of which there are over 400! | The Foundling Museum

How did Jacqueline Wilson come to write her first historical novel? In this teaser for the film made for our exhibition Picturing Hetty Feather, she talks about how the Hetty Feather books series, and her research into our archive. Find out more about Picturing Hetty Feather here: http://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/events/picturing-hetty-feather/ | The Foundling Museum

Girls at the Foundling Hospital, London - Foundling Museum