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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808842003321

Titolo

A caring county : social welfare in Hertfordshire from 1600 / / edited by Steve King, Gillian Gear

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hatfield : , : University of Hertfordshire Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-909291-14-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GearGillian

KingSteven <1966->

Disciplina

361.6094258

Soggetti

Poor - Services for - England - Hertfordshire - History

Public welfare - England - Hertfordshire - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Figures; Tables; 1: Introduction: Hertfordshire in Context: Steven King; 2: The Old Poor Law and Medicine in and Around Hertford, 1700-1834: Robert Dimsdale; 3: Caring for the Sick and Poor in Eighteenth-Century Royston: Carla Herrmann; 4: Madhouses of Hertfordshire 1735-1903: Gary Moyle; 5: Caring for the Poor in East Hertfordshire C.1620-50: Alan Thomson; 6: Pensions and the Care of the Elderly in Ashwell, 1670-1770: David Short

7: Looking after the Poor: Cheshunt Parish Workhouse in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: Sheila White8: The Old Poor Law in a Rural North Hertfordshire Parish, 1731-1831: Helen Hofton; Introduction to Chapters 9-11: A Note on the History of the London Foundling Hospital: Jennifer Sherwood; 9: Foundling Hospital Children at Nurse in Hertfordshire in the Eighteenth Century: David Allin; 10: Prudence West and the Foundling Hospital in Barnet, 1757-71: Yvonne Tomlinson; 11: The Last Years of the Foundling Hospital - Berkhamsted, 1935-55: Jennifer Sherwood

12: Hertfordshire's Relationship with Certified Industrial Schools, 1857-1933: Gillian GearBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 c