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Looking through a Different Lens: Microhistory and the Workhouse Experience in Late Nineteenth-Century London.

Authors : Jones, Peter (AUTHOR)

Subjects: ALMSHOUSES; PUBLIC welfare; POOR laws

Source: Journal of Social History. Summer2022, Vol. 55 Issue 4, p925-947. 23p.

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"A Very Bad Presidente in the House": Workhouse Masters, Care, and Discipline in the Eighteenth-Century Workhouse.

Authors : Ottaway, Susannah (AUTHOR)

Subjects: WORKHOUSES (Correctional institutions); ASYLUMS (Institutions) -- Law & legislation; DISCIPLINELEEDS (England); UNITED Kingdom

Source: Journal of Social History. Summer2021, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p1091-1119. 29p.

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Testifying for the Poor: Epistolary Advocates and the Negotiation of Parochial Relief in England, 1800-1834.

Authors : KING, STEVEN A.; JONES, PETER

Subjects: POOR laws; PUBLIC welfare; LEGAL status of migrant laborUNITED Kingdom

Source: Journal of Social History. Summer2016, Vol. 49 Issue 4, p784-807. 24p.

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THE NEW POOR LAW AND THE BREADWINNER WAGE: CONTRASTING ASSUMPTIONS.

Authors : Clark, Anna

Subjects: POOR laws; WAGES; WOMEN'S employmentUNITED States

Source: Journal of Social History. Winter2000, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p261. 21p.

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AN ENGLISH "POOR LAW REFORM ASSOCIATION"

Authors : Webd, Sidney

Subjects: *CHARITY laws & legislation; *CHARITIES; POOR lawsUNITED KingdomGREAT Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

Source: Quarterly Journal of Economics. Apr1891, Vol. 5 Issue 3, p370-372. 3p.

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Deceit, Deservingness, and Destitution: Able-Bodied Widows and the New Poor Law.

Authors : Muller, Nadine

Subjects: WORKING class women; POOR laws; WIDOWS

Source: Journal of Victorian Culture; Jan2021, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p89-102, 14p

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"Nurseries of the Poore": Hospitals and Almshouses in Early Modern Scotland.

Authors : MCCALLUM, JOHN

Subjects: ALMSHOUSES; HOSPITALS; EARLY modern historyGLASGOW (Scotland); SCOTLAND

Source: Journal of Social History. Winter2014, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p427-449. 23p.

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Midwifery and Maternity Care for Single Mothers in Eighteenth-Century Wales.

Authors : Muir, Angela Joy

Subjects: WELSH history; BIRTHS to unmarried women; CHILDBIRTHUNITED Kingdom

Source: Social History of Medicine; May2020, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p394-416, 23p, 1 Graph

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“You Could Not Get Any Person to be Trusted Except the State”: Poorer Workers' Loss of Faith in Voluntarism in Late 19th Century Britain.

Authors : Brodie, Marc

Subjects: WORKING class; FRATERNAL organizations; VOLUNTEER serviceUNITED Kingdom

Source: Journal of Social History. Summer2014, Vol. 47 Issue 4, p1071-1095. 25p.

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POOR RELIEF AND THE DANGEROUS AND CRIMINAL INSANE IN SCOTLAND, C. 1740-1840.

Authors : Houston, R. A.

Subjects: 19TH century Scottish history; CHARITIES -- History; POOR lawsSCOTLAND

Source: Journal of Social History. Winter2006, Vol. 40 Issue 2, p453-476. 24p.

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