Thousands of untold stories of abandoned children are being shown in a new online database.

Former Foundling Hospital pupil John Caldicott says that children in care today have it worse than he did living in a children's home in 1935.

News Real Life Stories Adoption The last foundling speaks out on life in harsh children's hospital school Tom Mackenzie was one of 600 illegitimate boys who lived in residential care at the brutal ...

But most of the 25,000 children cared for by the Foundling Hospital were not so lucky, with just one per cent being claimed by their families.

The Foundling Hospital was set up in 1739 by philanthropist Thomas Coram, as a solution for thousands of babies often thrown into the streets and left for dead.

The Foundling Hospital Collection includes masterpieces donated by the leading artists of the 18th century, like Hogarth, Gainsborough and Reynolds.

Opened in 2004 on the site of the original Foundling Hospital, Bloomsbury’s Foundling Museum tells the story of England’s first hospital for abandoned children, founded by philanthropist and ...

Paper hearts, scraps of fabric and faded ribbons are some of the mementos that weave together the stories of abandoned babies and children who were taken in by the Bloomsbury Foundling Hospital ...

“On a typical day we used to get up early and go into the washrooms, dress in the Foundling Hospital uniform, line up in twos, and [were] taken down to the dining hall for breakfast - and then ...