Alysa LeveneAlysa Leveneis Reader in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of The Childhood of the Poor: Welfare in Eighteenth-Century London(2012), From Cradle to Grave: Municipal Medicine in Interwar England and Wales2011; with M. Powell, J. Stewart and B. Taylor)and Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800 (2007). Read More Read Less