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Accommodating poverty : the housing and living arrangements of the English poor, c. 1600-1850 / edited by Joanne McEwan and Pamela Sharpe.

Other author/creatorMcEwan, Joanne.
Other author/creatorSharpe, Pamela.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBasingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
Descriptionxvi, 292 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Variant title Housing and living arrangements of the English poor, c. 1600-1850
Contents Accomodating poverty : the housing and living arrangements of the English poor, c. 1600-1850 / Pamela Sharpe & Joanne McEwan -- The value of accomodation. "Turned into the street with my children destitute of every thing" : the payment of rent and the London poor, 1600-1850 / Jeremy Boulton ; The lodging exchange : space, authority and knowledge in eighteenth-century London / Joanna McEwan ; Heartless and unhomely : dwellings of the poor in East Anglia and North-East England / Adrian Green ; Joys of the cottage : labourers' houses, hovels and huts in Britain and the British colonies, 1770-1830 / Sarah Lloyd -- Mobility and household composition. Vagrant lives / Tim Hitchcock ; The residential and familial arrangements of English pauper letter writers, 1800s-40s / Steven King ; Labour discipline, agricultural service and the households of the poor in rural England, c. 1640-1730 / Steve Hindle ; "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 -- Parochial relief and charity. "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 ; The parish poor house in the long eighteenth century / John Broad ; Retirement from the noise and hurry of the world : the experience of almshouse life / Alannah Tomkins.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9780230542426 (hbk.)
ISBN0230542425 (hbk.)

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