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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History magazine,

Britain's Best Selling History magazine. I'm a late 14.

In today's podcast we have another lecture from our 2019 History Weekend event in Chester.

Today's lecture comes from historian Helen Berry. Helen is the author of Orphans of Empire,

the Fate of London's Foundlings. And in this talk she tells the remarkable story of George King,

who was abandoned as a child in the 18th century and went on to an extraordinary life.

Thank you David and thanks to my friends at BBC History magazine for this invitation to participate.

And I want thank you to you all for coming this evening and giving up hard earned cash to come

and hear me speak when you could be at home watching Antiques Road show closing the curtains

and hunkering down now that the clocks have gone back. It's really heartening to see so many

history fans and devotees in these difficult times. I think it reminds us of who we are and what

it means to be human. So thank you for your time in coming. As David kindly said, and some of you

aren't even related to me and I should say thank you to my family for being here this evening.

Yeah, I just wanted to tell you a little bit about my book and to give you a sense of

the back of the tapestry, if you like, because when you write a book, you often construct a story

retrospectively about the research that's gone into it and make it appear very seamless.

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