The making of the Irish poor law, 1815–43

The making of the Irish poor law, 1815–43The making of the Irish poor law, 1815 43 examines the debates preceding and surrounding the 1838 act on the nature of Irish poverty and the responsibilities of society towards it. It traces the various campaigns for a poor law from the later eighteenth century. The nature and internal frictions of the great Irish poor inquiry of 1833 36 are analysed, along with the policy recommendations made by its chair, Archbishop Whately. It considers the aims

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This book combines the approaches of historians and archaeologists to explore past individuals as embodied subjects by examining the material and experiencing body in England

this book details the fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an “ideal” family size

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present and future in the period between the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War

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Based upon extensive primary and secondary source-based research in Britain and Australia over several years

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