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 Much of it remains unpublished or hidden in regional academic journals.
This selection of books related to the Poor Law, workhouse history and the welfare state may be available at public libraries across the country.
This selection of books related to the Poor Law, workhouse history and the welfare state may be available at public libraries across the country.
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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. |
For those who have access to academic journals, please see the suggested list of articles to aid your research.
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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. |
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