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The population of London soared during the Industrial Revolution and the poorer areas became iconic places of overcrowding and vice. Focusing on the communities

This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great indu

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

This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly

This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious