Participant Info
- First Name
- Claire
- Last Name
- Phillips
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- drclairephillips@outlook.com
- Affiliation
- Aberystwyth University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Childhood & youth, Foundling Hospital, poverty, juvenile crime, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, modern Britain.
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- Recent Publications
‘Working Class Medical Care for Children in Nineteenth-Century Northern England’, Doing Working-Class History: Research, Heritage, and Engagement, ed. by Oliver Betts, Laura Harrison and Laura Christine Price (London: Routledge, 2025), pp. 149–161
‘“There was no goodnight hug or kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950’, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 17:3 (2024), 389–411
‘“So they may be usefull to themselves”: Work and Apprenticeship in the Ackworth branch Foundling Hospital, 1757–1773’, Family & Community History, 25:3 (2022), 219–233
‘Child Abandonment in England: The Case of the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1834’, Genealogy, 3(3)35 (2019).
‘The Education of Children in the London Foundling Hospital’, Childhood in the Past: An International Journal, 11:1 (2018), 8-20.
‘The Treatment of Whooping Cough in Eighteenth-Century England’ Ex Historia, 8 (2016), 1-33.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Family, Gender, Medicine
