Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials.
Volume 1 Voices of the Poor: Poor Law Depositions and Letter General
Introduction by Alysa Levene, Notes on the Transcription of Handwritten
Documents, Bibliography, Introduction by Steven King, Sickness and Old Age,
edited by Steven King, Berkshire, Lancashire, Billington, Hulme, Tottington,
Northhamptonshire, Peterborough, Thrapston, Bastardy, edited by Thomas Nutt ,
Mens Paupers Letters, edited by Alannah Tomkins, Staffordshire Record
Office, Shropshire Archives
Alysa Levene, Steven King, Alannah Tomkins, Thomas Nutt, Peter King, Deborah A. Symonds, Liza Zunshine