Dr Claire Phillips

I am a historian of early modern and modern British History. I completed my PhD at the University of Leeds in 2017 with a thesis entitled 'The Care of Sick Children in Eighteenth-Century England', and I am currently revising this as a monograph, under contract with Amsterdam University Press. 

My ongoing research focuses on children in Welsh Workhouses, examining the ways in which children were deposited in these institutions, and how various locations in Wales housed, cared for, and trained these children. Children were boarded out, either with family members of foster families, or placed in Cottage Homes, in an attempt to keep them out of workhouses which left the children with stigma throughout their lives.