Accommodating Poverty: The Housing and Living Arrangements of the English Poor, c. 1600-1850

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Plates......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 11
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on the Contributors......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 17
Introduction: Accommodating Poverty: The Housing and Living Arrangements of the English Poor, c. 1600–1850......Page 18
Part I: The Value of Accommodation......Page 40
1 ‘Turned into the Street with My Children Destitute of Every Thing'; The Payment of Rent and the London Poor, 1600–1850......Page 42
2 The Lodging Exchange: Space, Authority and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century London......Page 67
3 Heartless and Unhomely? Dwellings of the Poor in East Anglia and North-East England......Page 86
4 Joys of the Cottage: Labourers' Houses, Hovels and Huts in Britain and the British Colonies, 1770–1830......Page 119
Part II: Mobility and Household Composition......Page 140
5 Vagrant Lives......Page 142
6 The Residential and Familial Arrangements of English Pauper Letter Writers, 1800–40s......Page 162
7 Labour Discipline, Agricultural Service and the Households of the Poor in Rural England, c. 1640–1730......Page 186
8 ‘I was Forced to Leave my Place to Hide my Shame': The Living Arrangements of Unmarried Mothers in London in the Early Nineteenth Century......Page 208
Part III: Parochial Relief and Charity......Page 236
9 ‘The Comforts of a Private Fireside'? The Workhouse, the Elderly and the Poor Law in Georgian Westminster: St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1725–1824......Page 238
10 The Parish Poor House in the Long Eighteenth Century......Page 263
11 Retirement from the Noise and Hurry of the World? The Experience of Almshouse Life......Page 280
Select Bibliography......Page 301
Index......Page 304