Accommodating Poverty

JEREMY BOULTON Professor of Urban History, Newcastle University, UK JOHN BROAD Lecture in History, London Metropolitan University, UK ADRIAN GREEN Lecturer in History, Durham University, UK STEVE HINDLE Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK TIM HITCHCOCK Professor of Eighteenth-Century History, University of Hertfordshire, UK STEVEN KING Professor of Economic History, University of Leicester, UK SARAH LLOYD Lecturer in History, School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire UK JOANNE MCEWAN Research Associate, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Western Australia LEONARD SCHWARZ Reader in Urban History, University of Birmingham, UK PAMELA SHARPE Professor of History, School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania, AustraliaALANNAH TOMKINS Senior Lecturer in History, Keele University, UK SAMANTHA WILLIAMS University Lecturer in Local and Regional History, the University of Cambridge, UK

• 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

'This book is refreshing and progressive in its prioritisation of the human experience of poverty and the way in which itt spotlights housing as a significant factor in the colossal changes that occured during this pivotal period in history.' Aimee Walshaw, Housing Studies'In this fascinating collection, an impressive team of scholars examine an important and previously neglected aspect of the lives of the poor from diverse perspectives.'- Robert Shoemaker, University of Sheffield, UK