Threads of Feeling: The London Foundling Hospital's Textile Tokens, 1740-1770 by John Styles
Threads of Feeling: The London Foundling Hospital's Textile Tokens, 1740-1770

John Styles

Threads of Feeling: The London Foundling Hospital's Textile Tokens, 1740-1770

John Styles

72 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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When Mothers left babies at London's Foundling Hospital in the mid-eighteenth century, the hospital often retained a small token as means of identification, usually a piece of fabric. These swatches of fabric now form Britain's largest collection ...

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