Author: J. LindsayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Scottish Poor Law : Its Operationin the North-east from 1745-1845
Author: J. LindsayThe Scottish Poor Law
Author: The Scottish Poor Law
Author: Jean Olivia LindsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Based on a wide range of primary sources, including kirk session records, parliamentary papers, early newspapers, and first-hand accounts, Dr. Lindsay traces the legal development of the Scottish poor-relief system. She describes its practical operation in both urban and rural areas, giving special attention to the city of Aberdeen and the adjacent counties. She analyses the controversies and debates surrounding the English act of 1834 and Scottish Poor Law Amendment Act of 1845, including the arguments of the Glasgow minister Dr, Thomas Chalmers and the Ediburgh medical professor William Pulteney Alison.
The Workhouse Encyclopedia
Author: Peter HigginbothamPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752477196
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it played a pivotal part. Compiled by Peter Higginbotham, one of Britain's best-known experts on the subject, this A-Z cornucopia covers everything from the 1725 publication An Account of Several Work-houses to the South African Zulu admitted to Fulham Road Workhouse in 1880. With hundreds of fascinating anecdotes, plus priceless information for researchers including workhouse locations throughout the British Isles, useful websites and archive repository details, maps, plans, original workhouse publications and an extensive bibliography, it will delight family historians and general readers alike. Where was my local workhouse? What records did they keep? What is gruel and is it really what inmates lived on? How did you get out of a workhouse? What famous people were once workhouse inmates? Are there any workhouse buildings I can visit? If these are the kinds of questions you've ever wanted to know the answer to, then this is the book for you.
Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914
Author: David EnglanderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317883217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the changing ideas to poverty over this period and assesses current debates on Victorian attitudes to the poor. David Englander reviews the old system of poor relief; he considers how the New Poor Law was enacted and received and looks at how it worked in practice. The chapter on the Scottish experience will be particularly welcomed, as will Dr Englander's discussion of the place of the Poor Law within British history.
The Operation of the Poor Law in the North-East of Scotland, 1745-1845
Author: Jean LindsayThe Scottish Poor Law, 1745-1845
Author: R. A. CageBritish Economic and Social History
Author: R. C. RichardsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719036002
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Rethinking Leviathan
Author: John BrewerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199201897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Offering an approach to the history of the modern state, this text concentrates on the 18th century and on two cases, those of Britain and Germany.
Agrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500-1860
Author: Larry PatriquinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230591388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book examines the evolution of public assistance for the poor in England from the late medieval era to the Industrial Revolution. Placing poor relief in the context of the unique class relations of agrarian capitalism, it considers how and why relief in England in the early modern period was distinct.