Mar 10, 2021
By Claudia Soares Environment & History, essay no. 7 The next contributor to our ‘Environment & History’ series, Dr Claudia Soares, considers how histories of the environment, emotions, and welfare intersect, through the written experiences of poor and...
Jun 13, 2019
by Jonathan Healey How important were kinship ties in the support of the English poor? In this post Jonathan Healey introduces his new article – ‘Kin support and the English poor: evidence from Lancashire, c.1620–1710’ – published in the May 2019 issue of...
Jul 3, 2012
Anglo-American conference 2009: CitiesThe rich becoming the poor: from riches to rags in the Georgian workhouse Jeremy Boulton (University of Newcastle) Abstract: Contemporary men and women, as Michael Mascuch reminded us in a pioneering article in Social History...
Jun 25, 2012
Anglo-American conference 2009: CitiesImagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1900 Richard Dennis (UCL)This paper will explore the emergence of ‘East End’ as a category of description and analysis in fiction and social scientific...
