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A Caring County?: Social Welfare in Hertfordshire from 1600
Gillian Gear Steve King
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Description for A Caring County?: Social Welfare in Hertfordshire from 1600
Paperback. This comparative study gathers together new research by local historians into aspects of welfare in Hertfordshire spanning four centuries and focusing on towns and villages across the county. Editor(s): King, Steven; Gear, Gillian. Num Pages: 320 pages, 50. BIC Classification: 1DBKEST; 3J; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 640.
This comparative study gathers together new research by local historians into aspects of welfare in Hertfordshire spanning four centuries and focusing on towns and villages across the county, including Ashwell, Cheshunt, Hertford, Pirton, and Royston, amongst many others. In so doing it makes a valuable contribution to the current debate about the spatial and chronological variation in the character of welfare regimes within single counties, let alone more widely. As well as viewing poor relief geographically and chronologically, the book also considers the treatment of particular groups such as the aged, the mad, children, and the unemployed, and shows how, ... Read more
This comparative study gathers together new research by local historians into aspects of welfare in Hertfordshire spanning four centuries and focusing on towns and villages across the county, including Ashwell, Cheshunt, Hertford, Pirton, and Royston, amongst many others. In so doing it makes a valuable contribution to the current debate about the spatial and chronological variation in the character of welfare regimes within single counties, let alone more widely. As well as viewing poor relief geographically and chronologically, the book also considers the treatment of particular groups such as the aged, the mad, children, and the unemployed, and shows how, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Of Hertfordshire Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Hatfield, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909291126
SKU
V9781909291126
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Ref
99-43
About Gillian Gear Steve King
Steven King is director of the University of Leicester Centre for Medical Humanities. He is a coeditor of Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe: Narratives of the Sick Poor and edits the journal Family and Community History. Gillian Gear is the archivist for Barnet Museum and is a coeditor of Herts Past and Present.
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