The picture gallery at the Foundling Museum is an imposing, green-walled room, lined with portraits of the great and the good. In powdered wigs and rich robes, the kindly faces of the supporters who ...

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Kate Middleton was an art history major at at the University of St. Andrews — where she met Prince William Kate Middleton is going back to her artistic roots. The royal mom of three, who was an art ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on Aug. 9, 2023. Find that audio here. Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Ann Leary, whose new book, "The Foundling," centers around a young woman who ...

One of Britain's most popular small museums is at the centre of a row involving leading figures in the arts world, a children's charity and the attorney general after six of the museum's trustees were ...

Unearthed documents show how Foundling Hospital children were robbed of full milk ration Dickens’s Oliver Twist and his fellow workhouse children were fed on nothing but the thin broth known as “gruel ...

The Princess of Wales hopes a special cause focused on young people can reach its $5.7 million fundraising target Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Kate Middleton is appealing for help for a favorite charity ...