New Book – Orphans of Empire

Helen’s new book Orphans of Empire: the Fate of London’s Foundlings was published by Oxford University Press in April 2019 – it can be ordered from OUP here or at Amazon here. 

‘Desperate mothers, abandoned babies: the tragic story of London’s foundlings’, The Spectator

A ‘myriad telling details unearthed by Helen Berry in her attractive retelling of the hospital’s fascinating history’, Literary Review

‘This book has soul’, The Times