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