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Includes a chapter on Scotland.

Based entirely on research from primary sources, this book describes the development of the Scottish Poor Law as an instrument for the preservation of the old a

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 att

With its focus on poverty and welfare in England between the seventeenth and later nineteenth centuries, this book addresses a range of questions that are often