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Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Mitchison Rosalind Mitchison
Categories: Electronic books
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-06 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Based entirely on research from primary sources, this book describes the development of the Scottish Poor Law as an instrument for the preservation of the old a
Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: David Englander
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated att
The Poor Law of Lunacy
Language: en
Pages: 331
Authors: Peter Bartlett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-10-01 - Publisher: A&C Black

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Most historians portray 19th-century county asylums as the exclusive realm of the asylum doctor, but Bartlett (law, U. of Nottingham) argues that they should be
Policing the Metropolis of Scotland: A History of the Police and Systems of Police in Edinburgh & Edinburghshire, 1770-1833
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The Workhouse Encyclopedia
Language: en
Pages: 517
Authors: Peter Higginbotham
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-01 - Publisher: The History Press

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This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it played a pivotal p