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A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.

Based on documents from two Suffolk villages, this study examines the operation of the poor law and the individual effort the elderly poor needed to make to sur

Examination of welfare during the last years of the Poor Law, bringing out the impact of poverty on particular sections of society - the lone mother and the eld

With its focus on poverty and welfare in England between the seventeenth and later nineteenth centuries, this book addresses a range of questions that are often

An established introductory textbook that provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the late 18th century. Derek Fr