Stories
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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The pain that punished feminists
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
Catalogue
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Public assistance and unemployment assistance : being the relevant sections from Social administration including the Poor laws / by John J. Clarke.
Clarke, John Joseph, 1879-1969.Date: 1937- Books
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A compilation of the laws of the state of Pennsylvania, relative to the poor from the year 1700, to 1795, inclusive. Published for the Guardians of the Poor.
Pennsylvania.Date: 1796- Books
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Report of the Poor law commissioners to the most noble the Marquis of Normanby, Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home department, on the continuance of the Poor law commission, and on some further amendments of the laws relating to the relief of the poor. With appendices.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1840- Books
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The statutes and by-laws of the Corporation of the Governor and Directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants, and their descendents, residing in Great Britain.
Hospital for Poor French Protestants.Date: 1761- Books
Political economists and the English Poor laws : a historical study of the influence of classical economics on the formation of social welfare policy / Raymond G. Cowherd.
Cowherd, Raymond Gibson, 1910-Date: [1977], ©1977