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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-30 - Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 324
Pages: 324
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-28 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded wo
Language: en
Pages: 311
Pages: 311
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12-15 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered
Language: en
Pages: 781
Pages: 781
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-31 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Law and Society in England 1750–1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern
Language: en
Pages: 314
Pages: 314
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-10 - Publisher: Rochester Studies in Medical H
England's New Poor Law (1834) transformed medical care in ways that have long been overlooked, or denigrated, by historians. Sickness in the Workhouse challenge