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...
Anglo-American conference 2009: Cities The 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...
Anglo-American conference 2009: Cities Imagining 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...
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