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Cultivating Charitable Benevolence

7 May 2017

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Sunday

11:00 – 17:00

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Free with Museum admission

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Foundling Museum

London, United Kingdom

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• 40 Brunswick Square
• London
• WC1N 1AZ
• United Kingdom

Foundling Museum

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• 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
• Russell Square, King's Cross St Pancras
• Euston, St Pancras International and King's Cross

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Dr. Andrew Rudd gives a talk exploring the role of literature and art in cultivating charitable behaviour.

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What role did stories and images play in attitudes towards charity in the eighteenth century? What role do they still play today? Dr Andrew Rudd, lecturer in eighteenth-century and Romantic literature, gives a talk exploring these questions, drawing on a rich selection of historical material as well as modern charity publicity.

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• Painting