Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle Under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834
(Part of the Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series)
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Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable, and growing, pressure, during a period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their families during these final decades of the old Poor Law. It takes as a case study the experience of poor families in two Bedfordshire communities, Campton and Shefford, and contrasts it with that...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1843838664
ISBN13:9781843838661
Release Date:September 2013
Publisher:Boydell Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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