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Navigating the Old English Poor Law
- The Kirkby Lonsdale Letters, 1809-1836
Engelsk Hardback
Navigating the Old English Poor Law
- The Kirkby Lonsdale Letters, 1809-1836
Engelsk Hardback

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This edition of over 600 letters written by or for the poor in the early nineteenth-century Cumbrian town of Kirkby Lonsdale provides a unique window onto the experiences, views and conditions of a much-neglected group in English society. At the most human level, these letters are replete with sickness and suffering, the inability of mothers and fathers to fulfil their basic roles, claims that people were starving and naked, writers who were at death''s door and those who were homeless and desperate. The letters also provide a sense of the emotional landscape of those who have largely escaped the attention of historians of emotion. Here we find anger, suffering, gratitude, hopelessness, fear, humiliation and humility, largely in the words and voice of those who experienced such emotions. And above all we find agency - a group of poor people and their advocates who were willing and able, indeed saw it as their right, to challenge those who administered welfare and attempt to shape a system which notionally at least afforded them no power. Here, then, are ordinary lives played out on a canvas that will be appealing to a wide readership.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9780197266816
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0197266819
Udg. Dato:
24 dec 2020
Længde:
32mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
165mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
24 dec 2020
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