Dr Kate Brooks discusses her original archival research into Muller's Orphanage, Ashley Down, Bristol, offering fresh critical insights into Victorian philanthropic and evangelical attitudes, and on the institution 's everyday life.

Kate Brooks is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Bath Spa University, currently writing a book on the history of care and education. She is also a Bristol-based foster carer, and great-grand-daughter of Muller orphan No. 458. The story of her own great grandfather and his siblings helped inspire her doctoral research, and features in her talk.