ALYSA LEVENE / STEVEN KING / ALANNAH TOMKINS / THOMAS NUTT / PETER KING / DEBORAH A SYMONDS / LISA ZUNSHIN
Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials.