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Problems in focus series

The New Poor Law in the nineteenth century / edited by Derek Fraser.

x, 198 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Old age and the English poor law, 1500-1700 / L.A. Botelho.

Social history in perspective

Social welfare in pre-industrial England : the old Poor Law tradition / Paul A. Fideler.

Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

The origins of the National Health Service : the medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871 / by Ruth G. Hodgkinson.

Themes in urban history

The Poor and the city : the English poor law in its urban context, 1834-1914 / edited by Michael E. Rose.

xiii, 94 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

The union workhouse : a study guide for local historians and teachers / Andy Reid.

The Scottish Poor Law : its operation in the North-East from 1745 to 1845 / Jean Lindsay.

Medical Heritage Library

The break-up of the poor law : being part one of the minority report of the Poor Law Commission / edited, with Introduction, by Sidney & Beatrice Webb.

<p>"This work provides the first detailed study of the poor law in London during the period leading up to and after the implementation of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources the book focuses explicitly on the ways in which those involved with the poor law - both as providers and recipients - negotiated the provision of relief. In the context of significant urban change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, it analyses the poor law as a system of institutions and explores the material and political processes that shaped relief policies."--BOOK JACKET.</p>

xviii, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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The New Poor Law in the nineteenth century / edited by Derek Fraser.

Old age and the English poor law, 1500-1700 / L.A. Botelho.

Social welfare in pre-industrial England : the old Poor Law tradition / Paul A. Fideler.

The origins of the National Health Service : the medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871 / by Ruth G. Hodgkinson.

The Poor and the city : the English poor law in its urban context, 1834-1914 / edited by Michael E. Rose.

The union workhouse : a study guide for local historians and teachers / Andy Reid.

The Scottish Poor Law : its operation in the North-East from 1745 to 1845 / Jean Lindsay.

The break-up of the poor law : being part one of the minority report of the Poor Law Commission / edited, with Introduction, by Sidney & Beatrice Webb.

Pauper capital : London and the Poor Law, 1790-1870 / David R. Green.

The Scottish poor law, 1745-1845 / R.A. Cage.

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The New Poor Law in the nineteenth century / edited by Derek Fraser.

Old age and the English poor law, 1500-1700 / L.A. Botelho.

Social welfare in pre-industrial England : the old Poor Law tradition / Paul A. Fideler.

The origins of the National Health Service : the medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871 / by Ruth G. Hodgkinson.

The Poor and the city : the English poor law in its urban context, 1834-1914 / edited by Michael E. Rose.

The union workhouse : a study guide for local historians and teachers / Andy Reid.

The Scottish Poor Law : its operation in the North-East from 1745 to 1845 / Jean Lindsay.

The break-up of the poor law : being part one of the minority report of the Poor Law Commission / edited, with Introduction, by Sidney & Beatrice Webb.

Pauper capital : London and the Poor Law, 1790-1870 / David R. Green.

The Scottish poor law, 1745-1845 / R.A. Cage.

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