Bibliography

Publication on the history of welfare in Britain – from the 1601 Poor Law through to the post-1945 welfare state and beyond – is tremendously vast. Much of it remains unpublished or hidden in regional academic journals.

A. W.  Ager, Crime and poverty in 19th Century England: The economy of makeshifts (2014), Bloomsbury.

P. Bartlett, The Poor Law of lunacy: the administration of pauper lunatics in mid-nineteenth century England (1999), Leicester.

G. Boyer, An economic history of the English Poor Law, 1750-1850 (1990), Cambridge University.

A. Brundage, The English Poor Laws, 1700-1930 (2002), Palgrave.

L. Charlesworth, Welfare’s forgotten past: a socio legal history of the Poor Law (2010), Routledge.

M. L Clark, Unemployment, welfare and masculine citizenship: ‘‘so much honest poverty’’ in Britain, 1870-1930(2015), Palgrave.

M. A. Crowther, The workhouse system, 1834-1945: the history of an English social institution (1981), Cambridge University.

M. Daunton (ed.) Charity, self-interest and welfare in Britain: 1500 to the present (1996), University College London.

F. Driver, Power and pauperism: the workhouse system, 1834-1884 (1993), Cambridge University.

D. Englander, Poverty and Poor Law reform in nineteenth century Britain, 1834-1914: from Chadwick to Booth (1998), Longman.

G. Finlayson, Citizen, state and social welfare in Britain, 1830-1990 (1994), Clarendon.

S. Fowler, The Workhouse: The People, The Places, The Life Behind Doors (2014), Pen & Sword Books Ltd.

R. G. Fuchs, Gender and poverty in nineteenth century Europe (2005), Cambridge University.

D. Green, Pauper Capital: London and the Poor Law, 1790-1870 (2010), Ashgate.

P. Higginbotham, Life in a Victorian workhouse : from 1834 to 1930 (2013), Stroud: The Pitkin Publishing

M. Higgs, Life in the Victorian & Edwardian Workhouse (2007), Stroud: Tempus.

L. Hulonce, Pauper Children and Poor Law Childhoods in England and Wales 1834-1910 (2016), Rounded Globe.

E.  T. Hurren, Protesting about pauperism: Poverty, politics and poor relief in late-Victorian England, 1870-1900 (2007), Boydell.

A. Kidd, State, society and the poor in nineteenth century England (1999), Macmillan.

S. King, Poverty and welfare in England, 1700-1850: a regional perspective (2000), Manchester University.

S. King and A. Tomkins (eds.), The Poor in England, 1700-1850: an economy of makeshifts (2003), Manchester University.

F. H. Lofthouse, Keepers of the house: a workhouse saga (2001), Hudson.

T. May, The Victorian workhouse (1997), Shire.

M. Pelling and R. M. Smith (eds.), Life, death and the elderly: historical perspectives (2003), Taylor and Francis.

S. Pope, Gressenhall : farm and workhouse : a history of the buildings and the people who lived and worked in them (2006), Cromer: Poppyland.

J. Reinarz and L. Schwartz, Medicine and the workhouse (2013), University of Rochester

R. Richardson, Dickens and the workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London poor (2012), Oxford University.

K. D. M. Snell, Parish and Belonging: community, identity and welfare in England and Wales (2006), Cambridge University. 

P. Thane, Old age in English history: past experiences, present issues (2002), Oxford University.

P. Wood, Poverty and the Victorian workhouse (1991), Alan Sutton. 

T. Besley, S. Coate, T. Guinnane, ‘Incentives, information and welfare: England’s New Poor Law and the workhouse test’, in History matters: essays on economic growth, technology and demographic change (2004), p.245-269.

H. M. Boot, ‘Unemployment and poor relief in Manchester, 1845-50’, Social History, 2 (1990), pp.217-228.

G. R. Boyer, ‘The evolution of unemployment relief in Great Britain’, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 34 (2004), pp.393-433.

A. Brundage, ‘Private charity and the 1834 New Poor Law’, in D. Critchlow and C. Parker (eds.) With us always: a history of private charity and public welfare (1998), pp.99-122.

A. Cochrane, ‘What sort of safety-net? Social security, income maintenance and the benefits system’, in Unsettling welfare: the reconstruction of social policy (1998), pp.291-332.

M. L. Clark, ‘Engendering relief: women, ablebodiedness, and the Poor Law in early Victorian England’, Journal of Women’s History, 11, 4 (2000), pp.108-130.

N. Durbach, ‘Roast beef, the New Poor Law and the British nation, 1834-63’, Journal of British Studies, 52 (2013), pp. 963-989.

D. Feldman, ‘Immigrants and welfare from the Old Poor Law to the welfare state’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 13 (2003), pp.79-104.

M. Hanley, ‘The economy of makeshifts and the poor law: a game of chance?’, in S. King and A. Tomkins, The poor in England, 1700-1850: an economy of makeshifts (2003), p76-99.

S. King, ‘Poor relief and English economic development reappraised’, Economic History Review, 50 (1997), pp.360-368.

S. King, ‘The English protoindustrial family: old and new perspectives’, History of the Family, 8 (2003), pp.21-43.

S. King, ‘Negotiating the law of poor relief in England, 1800-1840’, History, 96 (2011), 410-435.

I. Miller, ‘Feeding in the workhouse: the institutional and ideological functions of food in Britain, ca. 1834-70’, Journal of British Studies, 52 (2013), pp.940-962.

T. Nutt, ‘Illegitimacy, parental financial responsibility, and the 1834 Poor Law Commission Report: the myth of the old poor law and the making of the new’, Economic History Review, 63, 2 (2010), pp.335-361.

P. Thane, ‘Old people and their families in the English past’, in M. Daunton (ed.), Charity, self- interest and welfare in Britain: 1500 to the present (1996), pp.84-103.