Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account
Subject

Children - Institutional care

Images

  • Asylum for the St Ann's Society Schools, Brixton. Lithograph by C.J. Hullmandel after J.H. Taylor, 1829.
  • Istituto di St. Michele (home for delinquent children), Rome, Italy. Etching by I. Noval after G. Vasi, 1747.
All images (2)

Catalogue

    • Books
    • Online

    A psalm of thanksgiving : to be sung by the children of Christs-Hospital, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Easter-week, (according to ancient custom) for their founders and benefactors. 1688.

    | Date: 1688
    • Books

    Foundling Hospital : Thomas Coram School, Berkhamsted.

    | Date: [19??]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Asylum for the St Ann's Society Schools, Brixton. Lithograph by C.J. Hullmandel after J.H. Taylor, 1829.

    Taylor, John Henry, -1867. | Date: [1829] | Reference: 20149i
    • Books
    • Online

    A psalm of thanksgiving : to be sung by the children of Christs-Hospital, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Easter holy-days (according to ancient custom) at St. Mary Spittle, for their founders and benefactors, 1679.

    | Date: 1679
    • Books

    Child, nation, race and empire : child rescue discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850-1915 / Shurlee Swain & Margot Hillel.

    Swain, Shurlee. | Date: 2010
All works (11)

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    closed
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
SoundCloud
YouTube
Tripadvisor

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence