Accommodating poverty : the housing and living arrangements of the English poor, c. 1600-1850 / edited by Joanne McEwan and Pamela Sharpe.

Housing and living arrangements of the English poor, c. 1600-1850

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

xvi, 292 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm

Accomodating poverty : the housing and living arrangements of the English poor, c. 1600-1850 / Pamela Sharpe & Joanne McEwan -- The value of accomodation. "Turned into the street with my children destitute of every thing" : the payment of rent and the London poor, 1600-1850 / Jeremy Boulton ; The lodging exchange : space, authority and knowledge in eighteenth-century London / Joanna McEwan ; Heartless and unhomely : dwellings of the poor in East Anglia and North-East England / Adrian Green ; Joys of the cottage : labourers' houses, hovels and huts in Britain and the British colonies, 1770-1830 / Sarah Lloyd -- Mobility and household composition. Vagrant lives / Tim Hitchcock ; The residential and familial arrangements of English pauper letter writers, 1800s-40s / Steven King ; Labour discipline, agricultural service and the households of the poor in rural England, c. 1640-1730 / Steve Hindle ; "I was forced to leave my place to hide my shame" : the living arrangements of unmarried mothers in London in the early nineteenth century / Samantha K. Williams -- Parochial relief and charity. "The comforts of a private fireside" : the workhouse, the elderly and the poor law in Georgian Westminster : St Martin-in-the-fields, 1725-1824 / Jeremy Boulton & Leonard Schwarz ; The parish poor house in the long eighteenth century / John Broad ; Retirement from the noise and hurry of the world : the experience of almshouse life / Alannah Tomkins.

Includes bibliographical references and index.