Indoors or Outdoors? Welfare priorities and pauper choices in the Metropolis under the Old Poor Law, 1718-1824
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 208729-70904-1283
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Population, Welfare and Economic Change in Britain 1290–1834
- Publisher
- The Boydell Press for the Economic History Society
- ISBN
- 9781843839552
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This chapter is one of the main outputs of a ten-year ESRC-funded research programme into welfare in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Based on detailed analysis of very large datasets (workhouse admissions, payments to the poor, settlement examinations containing in all 138,311 records) it reveals how the balance between indoor and outdoor relief fluctuated between 1725 and 1824 and proposes a new way of modelling welfare applications. Most poor law historians have hitherto looked only at one aspect of poor relief: the article insists that welfare systems must be studied holistically to be understood fully.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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