Product Description: Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who were affected by poverty. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, the history of pauperism and of poor relief has rarely been written about, and no previous book has provided a guide to documents and records that family researchers can use to their trace their pauper ancestors...read more

Product Description: Together 3 Volumes. Originally published: London: P.S. King, 1904. 2 Vols. lxxvii, 384 pp; vii, 460 pp. [With] Mackay, Thomas. A History of the English Poor Law. Volume 3: From 1834 to the present time [1904]. Being a Supplementary Volume to "A History of the English Poor Law...read more

Product Description: This study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth century to the present combines individual stories with official actions. Lynn Lees shows how clients as well as officials negotiated welfare settlements--cultural definitions of entitlement, rather than available resources, determined amounts and beneficiaries...read more

Product Description: During the last third of the eighteenth century, most parishes in rural southern England adopted policies providing poor relief outside workhouses to unemployed and underemployed able-bodied labourers. The debate over the economic effects of 'outdoor' relief payments to able-bodied workers has continued for over 200 years...read more

Product Description: Crossing period boundaries separating late medieval, early modern, and long eighteenth-century England, Paul A. Fideler offers a coherent overview of parish-centered social welfare from its medieval roots, through its institutionalisation in the Elizabethan Poor Law, to its demise in the early years of the Industrial Revolution...read more

Product Description: This volume examines a number of themes central to 19th-century social and political history in Britain. Looking in detail at the 1834 reform of the "Poor Law," the author considers the context in which the law was framed and the social values of those who supported and opposed it...read more

Product Description: The Poor Law had a profound impact on English society. Designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of government and determined people's expectations and assumptions about social welfare...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The author argues against the orthodox interpretation of the changing nature of the relief and administration of poverty from the 17th century to the reform of poor law administration in England in the mid-19th century. He locates the "constitution" of poverty in the debates on pauperism which took place at the end of the 18th century, arguing that this event marks a transformation in modes of government...read more

Product Description: Book by Cowherd, Raymond Gibson