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Year 6 Dickens and Foundling Museums Trip, Tuesday 23rd September
Posted on 23/09/2025Year 6 Dickens and Foundling Museums Trip, Tuesday 23rd September
Year 6 historians had a wonderful day in London this week exploring the rapid period of change that took place in the Georgian and Victorian era due to the Industrial Revolution. We spent the morning at the Foundling Hospital finding out about how the philanthropist, Thomas Coram, petitioned for 17 years to gain permission for a children’s home to be built to improve the lives of poor Georgian children; we loved exploring the original staircase and rooms from the hospital and imagining life as a Foundling. In the afternoon, we participated in a ‘Curating Charles Dickens’ workshop where we handled artefacts and deduced what life was like in the Victorian era, especially for the middle class.

























