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Petty Tyranny and Oppression

This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor. The book examines the period from the late-eighteenth-century crisis of the Old Poor Law, through the adoption of the New Poor Law reform in...

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Format: Online
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: London Publishing Partnership 2026
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disability
New Poor Law
paupers
poverty and welfare
punishment
tyranny
Victorian Poor Law
workhouses
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHQ History of other geographical groupings and regions
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics
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