Hogarth and the 18th Century Sex Trade

Hogarth and the 18th Century Sex Trade comes to the Foundling Museum on Thursday 12 November, running from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. It's an immersive storytelling evening that combines performance with a formal talk, and it takes place inside the museum itself, which was once the home of William Hogarth.

If you're not familiar with the place, the Foundling Museum tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for abandoned children. It sets out the work of its founder, Thomas Coram, alongside that of Hogarth and George Frideric Handel, both of whom were major benefactors of the institution. The museum houses a nationally important art collection and the world's largest privately amassed collection of Handel memorabilia, and its charitable work for children continues today through the care organisation Coram.

That connection to Hogarth is the hook here. The evening is billed as an immersive storytelling experience at his historic home, and the subject is the 18th-century sex trade, a world Hogarth captured in his paintings and prints. The format mixes performance with a formal talk, so you'll get both the storytelling side of things and a more structured look at the history. It's a three-hour session, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm, and tickets are £12. The museum is at 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ, in Clerkenwell.