Search Results for: Sickness Medical Welfare And The English Poor 1750 1834

At the core of this book are three central contentions: That medical welfare became the totemic function of the Old Poor Law in its last few decades; that the p

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded wo

Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered

Law and Society in England 1750–1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern

This established introductory textbook provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the late 18th century. It is the e