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

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: Accommodating Poverty: The Housing and Living Arrangements of the English Poor, c. 1600–1850....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
‘Turned into the Street with My Children Destitute of Every Thing’; The Payment of Rent and the London Poor, 1600–1850....Pages 25-49
The Lodging Exchange: Space, Authority and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century London....Pages 50-68
Heartless and Unhomely? Dwellings of the Poor in East Anglia and North-East England....Pages 69-101
Joys of the Cottage: Labourers’ Houses, Hovels and Huts in Britain and the British Colonies, 1770–1830....Pages 102-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Vagrant Lives....Pages 125-144
The Residential and Familial Arrangements of English Pauper Letter Writers, 1800–40s....Pages 145-168
Labour Discipline, Agricultural Service and the Households of the Poor in Rural England, c. 1640–1730....Pages 169-190
‘I was Forced to Leave my Place to Hide my Shame’: The Living Arrangements of Unmarried Mothers in London in the Early Nineteenth Century....Pages 191-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
‘The Comforts of a Private Fireside’? The Workhouse, the Elderly and the Poor Law in Georgian Westminster: St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1725–1824....Pages 221-245
The Parish Poor House in the Long Eighteenth Century....Pages 246-262
Retirement from the Noise and Hurry of the World? The Experience of Almshouse Life....Pages 263-283
Back Matter....Pages 284-292