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Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Steven King
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-30 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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At the core of this book are three central contentions: That medical welfare became the totemic function of the Old Poor Law in its last few decades; that the p
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Pages: 324
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-28 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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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
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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
Law and Society in England 1750-1950
Language: en
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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
Sickness in the Workhouse
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Alistair Ritch
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-10 - Publisher: Rochester Studies in Medical H

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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