McEwan, Joanne
Accommodating Poverty
1. Introduction: Accommodating Poverty: The Housing and Living Arrangements of the English Poor, c. 1600–1850
Pamela Sharpe, Joanne McEwan
Part I. The Value of Accommodation
2. ‘Turned into the Street with My Children Destitute of Every Thing’; The Payment of Rent and the London Poor, 1600–1850
Jeremy Boulton
3. The Lodging Exchange: Space, Authority and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century London
Joanne McEwan
4. Heartless and Unhomely? Dwellings of the Poor in East Anglia and North-East England
Adrian Green
5. Joys of the Cottage: Labourers’ Houses, Hovels and Huts in Britain and the British Colonies, 1770–1830
Sarah Lloyd
Part II. Mobility and Household Composition
6. Vagrant Lives
Tim Hitchcock
7. The Residential and Familial Arrangements of English Pauper Letter Writers, 1800–40s
Steven King
8. Labour Discipline, Agricultural Service and the Households of the Poor in Rural England, c. 1640–1730
Steve Hindle
9. ‘I was Forced to Leave my Place to Hide my Shame’: The Living Arrangements of Unmarried Mothers in London in the Early Nineteenth Century
Samantha K. Williams
Part III. Parochial Relief and Charity
10. ‘The Comforts of a Private Fireside’? The Workhouse, the Elderly and the Poor Law in Georgian Westminster: St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1725–1824
Jeremy Boulton, Leonard Schwarz
11. The Parish Poor House in the Long Eighteenth Century
John Broad
12. Retirement from the Noise and Hurry of the World? The Experience of Almshouse Life
Alannah Tomkins
Avainsanat: History, Social History, Cultural History, History of Britain and Ireland, Economic History, History of Early Modern Europe, Modern History
- Toimittaja
- McEwan, Joanne
- Sharpe, Pamela
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2011
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sivumäärä
- 308 sivua
- Kategoria
- Historia
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230304703
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-1-349-36000-0