How to become a good foundling in early Victorian London∗

This is a revised version of a paper given at the Social History Society conference on ‘Life in total institutions’ in January 1983. It is part of a project on the history of pauper and delinquent childrer in early Victorian England which I started while a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in London between 1980 and 1982. Pat Thane and John Gillis kindly offered their help and advice.

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This is a revised version of a paper given at the Social History Society conference on ‘Life in total institutions’ in January 1983. It is part of a project on the history of pauper and delinquent childrer in early Victorian England which I started while a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in London between 1980 and 1982. Pat Thane and John Gillis kindly offered their help and advice.