Accommodating Poverty

List of Illustrations, Tables and Figures Preface List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Accommodating Poverty: The Housing and Living Arrangements of the English Poor, c.1600-1850; P.Sharpe & J.McEwan PART I: THE VALUE OF ACCOMMODATION 'Turned into the Street with my Children Destitute of Every Thing'; The Payment of Rent and the London Poor, 1600-1850; J.Boulton The Lodging Exchange: Space, Authority and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century London; J.McEwan Heartless and Unhomely? Dwellings of the Poor in East Anglia and North-East England; A.Green Joys of the Cottage: Labourers' Houses, Hovels and Huts in Britain and the British Colonies, 1770-1830; S.Lloyd PART II: MOBILITY AND HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION Vagrant Lives; T.Hitchcock The Residential and Familial Arrangements of English Pauper Letter Writers, 1800-1840s; S.King Labour Discipline, Agricultural Service and the Households of the Poor in Rural England, c.1640-1730; S.Hindle 'I was forced to leave my place to hide my shame': The Living Arrangements of Unmarried Mothers in London in the Early Nineteenth Century; S.K.Williams PART III: PAROCHIAL RELIEF AND CHARITY 'The Comforts of a Private Fireside'? The Workhouse, the Elderly and the Poor Law in Georgian Westminster: St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1725-1824; J.Boulton & L.Schwarz The Parish Poor House in the Long Eighteenth Century; J.Broad Retirement from the Noise and Hurry of the World?: The Experience of Almshouse Life; A.Tomkins Select Bibliography Index