Overview

Over the last twenty years more and more historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have turned their eyes away from the records of central administration, towards local archives, and the lives of the poor. What they have found is a wealth of sources some of which chronicle the lives, and many of which record the words, of working people. This book will bring together some of the best work based on these sources.

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Author:   Tim Hitchcock ,  Pamela Sharpe ,  Peter King ,  Pamela Sharpe (Lecturer in Economic and Social History, University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780333678916

ISBN 10:   0333678915
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   17 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction Going on the Parish: the Parish Pension and Its Meaning in the London Suburbs 1640-1724; J.Boulton London Domestic Servants from Depositional Evidence, 1660-1750: Servant-Employer Sexuality in the Patriarchal Household; T.Meldrum 'Unlawfully Begotten on Her Body': Illegitimacy and the Parish Poor in St Luke's, Chelsea; T.Hitchcock 'The Bowels of Compation': a Labouring Family and the Law c.1790-1834; P.Sharpe Voices in the Crowd: the Kirby Lonsdale Township Letters 1809-36; J.S.Taylor Old Age in Poverty: the Record of Essex Pauper Letters 1780-1834; T.Sokoll Pauper Inventories and the Material Life of the Poor in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; P.King 'An Old Offender tho' so Young in Years': the Criminal Careers of Juvenile Offenders in Middlesex in the 1830s; H.Shore 'The Poor in Blindnes': Letters from Mildenhall, Wilts 1835-6; G.C.Smith Index

Reviews

'...a fine collection, which vividly demonstrates the nature and significance of the politics of parish relief.' - Steve Hindle, The Economic History Review

Author Information

PAMELA SHARPE is currently Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth. She was Lecturer in Social and Economic History at the University of Bristol from 1993 to 1999. She received an MA (Hons) in Economic History from the University of Edinburgh and completed a doctorate in demographic history at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge, in 1989. From 1990 to 1993 she was Essex County Council Research Fellow in Local History at the University of Essex.

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