A Woman's Work: Museum Guided Tour

9th May 2026, 11am

Foundling Museum, WC1N 1AZ

From £20

A painting of two individuals looking at each other. A lit candle and a loaf of bread in a basket sits on a table that seperates both individuals

9th May 2026, 11am

Foundling Museum, WC1N 1AZ

From £20

Join acclaimed author Elinor Cleghorn for a tour inspired by her new book A Woman’s Work, the first comprehensive history of mothers and mothering from antiquity to today.

On this Museum tour, discover how the stigmatisation of single mothers in 17th and 18th-century England gave rise to institutions like the Foundling Hospital.

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