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Poverty and welfare in England, 1700-1850: a regional perspective
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ISBN: 0719049393 0719049407 Year: 2000 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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Writing the lives of the English poor, 1750s-1830s
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ISBN: 9780773556492 0773556494 9780773556485 0773556486 9780773556508 0773556508 9780773556515 0773556516 Year: 2019 Publisher: Montreal Kingston London Chicago McGill-Queen's University Press

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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 workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King reveals colourful stories of poor people, their advocates, and the officials with whom they engaged during this period in British history, distilled from the largest collection of parochial correspondence ever assembled. Investigating the way that people experienced and shaped the English and Welsh welfare system through the use of almost 26,000 pauper letters and the correspondence of overseers in forty-eight counties, Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s reconstructs the process by which the poor claimed, extended, or defended their parochial allowances. Challenging preconceptions about literacy, power, social structure, and the agency of ordinary people, these stories suggest that advocates, officials, and the poor shared a common linguistic register and an understanding of how far welfare decisions could be contested and negotiated. King shifts attention away from traditional approaches to construct an unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of poor law administration and popular writing at the turn of the nineteenth century. At a time when the western European welfare model is under sustained threat, Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s takes us back to its deepest roots to demonstrate that the signature of a strong welfare system is malleability.


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Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750 - 1834
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ISBN: 1526138859 1526129019 9781526129017 9781526129024 1526129027 1526129000 9781526129000 Year: 2018 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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This work explores the medical world of the poor and the Old Poor Law in the period 1750-1834.

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Experience of being poor in England, 1700-1834 : the interaction of community sentiment, kinship & demography
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ISBN: 9781845194338 Year: 2016 Publisher: Brighton : Sussex Academic,

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Poor --- Poverty --- Public welfare --- Poor. --- Poverty. --- Public welfare. --- History. --- England.


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Migration, settlement and belonging in Europe, 1500 - 1930s : comparative perspectives.
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ISBN: 9781782381457 9781782381464 1782381465 9781461952510 1461952514 1782381457 Year: 2013 Volume: 23 Publisher: New York Berghahn

Making sense of the industrial revolution
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ISBN: 0719050227 0719050219 9780719050220 9780719050213 Year: 2001 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press


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Welfare peripheries : the development of welfare states in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe
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ISBN: 9783039101764 3039101765 Year: 2007 Publisher: Bern ; Oxford : Peter Lang,

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Neurosteroids and the nervous system
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ISSN: 2191558X ISBN: 1283908840 1461455596 1461455588 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Springer,

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While steroids from the periphery have profound effects on the nervous system, the nervous system also produces its own steroids de novo (“neurosteroids”). The physiological importance of neurosteroids is beginning to be understood. These steroids potentially have roles in sedative/hypnotic behavior, anxiety, learning, and memory. At the cellular level, neurosteroids affect neuronal excitability, synaptic plasticity and cell proliferation and survival. Early findings hold promise for future strategies to treat specific psychologicalconditions and neurological diseases. This Brief will focus on the current state of understanding of brainderived neurosteroids.

The poor in England, 1700-1850 : an economy of makeshifts
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ISBN: 0719061598 0719080436 9786610734139 1847790666 1280734132 1423706382 9781423706380 9781847790668 9780719061592 9781280734137 9781526137869 1526137860 Year: 2003 Publisher: Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press,

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This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing


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Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England : Bearing Witness
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ISBN: 3030478394 3030478386 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility that a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.

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