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  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. List of Tables
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Notes on Contributors
  10. Preface: The Small Bills and Petty Finance Project
  11. Introduction: The Old Poor Law
  12. I. Paupers and Vagrants
    1. 1. Accounting for Illegitimacy: Parish Politics and the Poor
    2. Interlude 1
    3. 2. Clothing the Poor
    4. Interlude 2
    5. 3. Vagrancy, Poor Relief and the Parish
    6. Interlude 3
  13. II. Providers and Enablers and their Critics
    1. 4. Women, Business and the Old Poor Law
    2. Interlude 4
    3. 5. The Overseers’ Assistant: Taking a Parish Salary, 1800–1834
    4. Interlude 5
    5. 6. Who Cares? Mismanagement, Neglect and Suffering in the Final Decades of the Old Poor Laws
    6. Interlude 6
  14. III. Public Histories
    1. 7. Public Histories and Collaborative Working
    2. Conclusion
  15. Index

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New Historical Perspectives is a book series for early career scholars within the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Books in the series are overseen by an expert editorial board to ensure the highest standards of peer-reviewed scholarship. Commissioning and editing is undertaken by the Royal Historical Society, and the series is published under the imprint of the Institute of Historical Research by the University of London Press.

The series is supported by the Economic History Society and the Past and Present Society.

Series co-editors: Professor Elizabeth Hurren (University of Leicester) and Professor Heather Shore (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Founding co-editors: Simon Newman (University of Glasgow) and Penny Summerfield (University of Manchester)

New Historical Perspectives Editorial Board

Professor Charlotte Alston

Northumbria University

Professor David Andress

University of Portsmouth

Dr Christopher Bahl

Durham University

Dr Milinda Banerjee

University of St Andrews

Dr Robert Barnes

York St John University

Dr Karin Bowie

University of Glasgow

Professor Catherine Clarke

Institute of Historical Research, University of London

Professor Neil Fleming

University of Worcester

Professor Ian Forrest

University of Oxford

Dr Emma Gallon

University of London Press

Professor Leigh Gardner

London School of Economics

Dr Sarah Longhair

University of Lincoln

Dr Charlotte Wildman

University of Manchester

Dr Nick Witham

University College London

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