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Echoes of Care: The Living History of Coram and the Foundling Hospital

This artwork is the creative culmination of Coram’s Voices Through Time: The Story of Care programme (2019-2024).

Care-experienced young people worked with The Liminal Space to explore Coram’s Foundling Hospital Archive and the past and present of the care system. Their voices, imagery and ideas are woven throughout the artwork.

At the heart of Voices Through Time has been the digitisation and transcription of 100,000 pages from the Foundling Hospital Archive. These unique records detail the lives of the Foundlings, their mothers and others linked to the Foundling Hospital between 1739 and 1885.

You can listen to the audio handout, leave your hopes and dreams of the care system, and explore other resources related to the artwork below.

An audio described version of the exhibition handout, which accompanies our art installation Echoes of Care: The Living History of Coram and the Foundling Hospital. Read more

Audio handout
Let us know your thoughts after seeing the exhibition by completing our short survey. Read more

What are your hopes and dreams for the care system?
A PDF version of our exhibition handout to print out, which accompanies our art installation Echoes of Care: The Living History of Coram and the Foundling Hospital. Read more

Exhibition handout
Read the credits for historical images which have been used in the exhibition. Read more

Image credits
  • Echoes of Care Exhibition. © Andy Stagg
  • Echoes of Care Exhibition. © Andy Stagg
  • Echoes of Care Exhibition. © Andy Stagg
  • Echoes of Care Exhibition. © Andy Stagg
  • Echoes of Care Exhibition. © Andy Stagg
  • Echoes of Care Exhibition. © Andy Stagg
  • Echoes of Care Exhibition. © Andy Stagg

Echoes of Care has been delivered as part of Voices Through Time: The Story of Care programme, made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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