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“Contents” in “Providing for the Poor”

Contents

 List of illustrations

 List of tables

 List of abbreviations

 Acknowledgements

 Notes on contributors

 Preface: The Small Bills and Petty Finance project
Peter Collinge and Louise Falcini

 Introduction: The Old Poor Law
Peter Collinge and Louise Falcini

I. Paupers and vagrants

1. Accounting for illegitimacy: parish politics and the poor
Louise Falcini

 Interlude 1: Thomas Woolgar, the mystery man
Jean Irvin

2. Clothing the poor
Elizabeth Spencer

 Interlude 2: Elizabeth Overing, sent to Bedlam
Elizabeth Hughes

3. Vagrancy, poor relief and the parish
Tim Hitchcock

 Interlude 3: Elizabeth Malbon (c.1743–1801)
Dianne Shenton

II. Providers and enablers and their critics

4. Women, business and the Old Poor Law
Peter Collinge

 Interlude 4: The Wilkinsons and the Griffin Inn, Penrith
Margaret Dean

5. The overseers’ assistant: taking a parish salary, 1800–1834
Alannah Tomkins

 Interlude 5: The parochial career of James Finlinson (1783–1847)
William Bundred

6. Who cares? Mismanagement, neglect and suffering in the final decades of the Old Poor Laws
Samantha A. Shave

 Interlude 6: Abel Rooker (1787–1867), surgeon
Janet Kisz

III. Public histories

7. Public histories and collaborative working
Louise Falcini and Peter Collinge

 Conclusion
Alannah Tomkins

 Index

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