Handel

Fanny Heese. Walter Raleigh. Ethelred Hovell. Martin Scaleshooe. Epaminodas Allen. Bifsell Stanes. Jenny Godmanchester. William Hogarth. Elizabeth Foundling. These are just some of the names of the children who found themselves handed in at London’s Foundling Hospital, a charitable enterprise set up in the 18th century “for the care and maintenance of exposed and deserted… Read more