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The first sustained study of the mothers and fathers of poor children in early modern England, drawing upon a wide range of archival material, including quarter

Illness in childhood was common in early modern England. Hannah Newton asks how sick children were perceived and treated by doctors and laypeople, examines the

This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, c

This book is a study of shame in English society in the two centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and powerful hold it had on contempo

Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma is the first full-length exploration of what it was like to be illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, a period of 'sexual