Claire Marie ☠️
@clartyclara.bsky.social
PhD. Lecturer. Historian of childhood, family, welfare.
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Claire Marie ☠️
@clartyclara.bsky.social
· Apr 16
When mothers admitted their children to the London Foundling Hospital, they often left tokens. Sometimes, just a cut of the child's clothing, as in this case. This child was reclaimed by its mother in 1760. Seeing the fabric in the archive this week was incredible.
Ever get the feeling you're being watched?!
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Ever get the feeling you're being watched?!
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The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth
Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
www.histchild.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth
Working with oral histories of children who were in Cottage Homes in the early twentieth century. One old man said 'we had a sister too, I don't know where she went, we never saw her again'. These stories haven't actually changed as siblings are still split up today.
July 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Working with oral histories of children who were in Cottage Homes in the early twentieth century. One old man said 'we had a sister too, I don't know where she went, we never saw her again'. These stories haven't actually changed as siblings are still split up today.
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#Londonfoundlingmuseum Tokens in the street nearby tepresenting those ‘fallen women’ left with their babies in the hope of reclaiming them.
May 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
#Londonfoundlingmuseum Tokens in the street nearby tepresenting those ‘fallen women’ left with their babies in the hope of reclaiming them.
Kate Brooks has written a brilliant book on care and education systems from the nineteenth century. Do go and buy it! #histchild
May 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Kate Brooks has written a brilliant book on care and education systems from the nineteenth century. Do go and buy it! #histchild
When mothers admitted their children to the London Foundling Hospital, they often left tokens. Sometimes, just a cut of the child's clothing, as in this case. This child was reclaimed by its mother in 1760. Seeing the fabric in the archive this week was incredible.
April 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
When mothers admitted their children to the London Foundling Hospital, they often left tokens. Sometimes, just a cut of the child's clothing, as in this case. This child was reclaimed by its mother in 1760. Seeing the fabric in the archive this week was incredible.
Reposted by Claire Marie ☠️
Learn about girls in the workhouse, c.1880-1920, and the social concerns this prompted. womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the... #GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHM2025
Girls in the workhouse: a question of morality, c.1880-1920 – Claire Phillips
In the late nineteenth century, anxiety was growing throughout society about the suitability of the workhouse for children. Children could enter the workhouse for many reasons: as part of destitute…
womenshistorynetwork.org
March 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Learn about girls in the workhouse, c.1880-1920, and the social concerns this prompted. womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the... #GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHM2025
I had to buy my own copy, but happy to see this out in the world
November 16, 2024 at 1:35 PM
I had to buy my own copy, but happy to see this out in the world
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My latest article is out in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. If you want a copy but don't have access, let me know #histchild
“There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950 muse.jhu.edu/article/938247
“There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950 muse.jhu.edu/article/938247
Project MUSE - “There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950
muse.jhu.edu
September 30, 2024 at 8:40 AM
My latest article is out in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. If you want a copy but don't have access, let me know #histchild
“There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950 muse.jhu.edu/article/938247
“There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950 muse.jhu.edu/article/938247
My latest article is out in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. If you want a copy but don't have access, let me know #histchild
“There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950 muse.jhu.edu/article/938247
“There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950 muse.jhu.edu/article/938247
Project MUSE - “There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950
muse.jhu.edu
September 30, 2024 at 8:40 AM
My latest article is out in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. If you want a copy but don't have access, let me know #histchild
“There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950 muse.jhu.edu/article/938247
“There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950 muse.jhu.edu/article/938247
I wrote this last year for my Women's History Network fellowship #womenshistorymonth
womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the...
womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the...
March 3, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I wrote this last year for my Women's History Network fellowship #womenshistorymonth
womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the...
womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the...
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Bobbie Charlton and his mum Cissie photographed in Ashington in 1953.
October 21, 2023 at 6:42 PM
Bobbie Charlton and his mum Cissie photographed in Ashington in 1953.