Londonist Out Loud: A Podcast About London, 12 April 2013
A touching look at the Foundling Hospital where many unwanted children were left in the eighteenth century.
Foundling Museum
Londonist Out Loud: A Podcast For London, 12 October 2012
Charles Dickens, Jack the Ripper two Bloomsbury institutions.
Londonist Out Loud: A Podcast for London, 14 May 2012
The results of the mayoral elections, Vauxhall Gardens and William the Conqueror.
Quentin Blake @ The Foundling Museum
New work by the much-loved illustrator.
Londonist Out Loud: A Podcast For London, 25 February 2011
A tour of the museum and an interview with its staff about an invisible history, and a new Grayson Perry exhibition.
Londonist Lunchtimes: Lunchtime Concerts at The Foundling Museum
Image of The Foundling Museum from lizsmith’s photostream under CC license Do you work near Brunswick Square? Bored of surfing the internet in your lunchbreaks while dropping sandwich crumbs into your keyboard? Then why not get out and about in that precious hour between morning …
Free Tonight?
The Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury was demolished in the 1920s, but its work carried on. The institution relocated to Redhill, then Berkhamstead and cared for abandoned children until 1956 when fostering and adoption became the preferred option. Tonight, a panel of former pupils will gather …
Cultural Olympiad: the Game’s Afoot
This weekend sees the beginning of the Cultural Olympiad, the £40m marketing drive by the government to persuade us all that the Olympics are good and hey-you-don’t-even-need-to-be-sporty-to-benefit. Cynicism aside, the idea is really sound. At worst it means that we all get a bit of …
