Obligation, entitlement and dispute under the English Poor Laws / edited by Peter Jones and Steven King.

Other author Jones, Peter (Historian)
Other author King, Steven, 1966-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNewcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Descriptionxii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Contents Obligation, entitlement and dispute : navigating the English Poor Laws 1600-1900 / Peter Jones and Steven King -- "The charity of our life and healthful years"? : approaches to inter-vivos charitable giving to the poor in the metropolis 1600-1720 / Jeremy Boulton -- From petition to pauper letter : the development of an epistolary form / Peter Jones and Steven King -- Families, wheat prices and the allowance cycle : poverty and poor relief in the agricultural community of Ardleigh 1794-1801 / Thomas Sokoll -- Poverty, kinship support and the case of Ellen Parker 1818-1827 / Alannah Tomkins -- Widows, work and wantonness : pauper letters and the boundaries of entitlement under the Old Poor Law / Peter Jones -- Parish women : maternity and the limitations of maiden settlement in England 1662-1834 / Pamela Sharpe -- The geography of poor relief in rural Oxfordshire 1775-1832 / John Langton -- The rights of the poor and the role of the law : the impact of pauper appeals to the summary courts 1750-1834 / Peter King -- Rights, duties and practice in the transition between the Old and New Poor Laws 1820s-1860s / Steven King -- "World without welfare" : pauper perspectives on medical care under the late-Victorian poor law 1870-1900 / Elizabeth Hurren.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 321-343) and index.
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