Early English Poor Laws
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British Poor Laws -- 1800's
British Parliamentary Papers
- Children's Employment -- HD 6250 .G7 I75
- Poor Law -- JN 500 .P37 P665
Available in the UCF Library, Government Documents, 1st floor -- see map
- Report of the Minutes of Evidence on the State of Children Employed in the Manufactories of the United Kingdom Together with a Report on the Employment of Boys in Sweeping Chimneys with Minutes of Evidence and Appendix [title varies], 1816-1867
- Reports from the Select Committee to Inquire into the Administration of the Relief of the Poor under the Provision of the Poor Law Amendment Act with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices [title varies], 1834-1900
Bibliography on Elizabethan Poor Laws (compiled by Richard Harrison, UCF Libraries, updated Fall 2012)
- Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560-1640 byCall Number: General Collection HV 4546 .A3 B45 1985New York: Methuen, 1985.
- “Vagrants and the Social Order in Elizabethan England.” Past and Present: A Journal of Historical Studies by64, no. 84 (August 1974): 3-29.
- Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700 byCall Number: General Collection HV 245 .B715 2004Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 2004
- The Oxford Companion to British History byCall Number: Reference DA 34 .O93 1997New York: Oxford University Press, 1997
s.v. “Poor Laws” (by Ian John Ernest Keil) - From Alms to Overseers: A Study of the Transformation of Charity and Poor Relief in Reformation Essex byM.A. thesis, Utah State University, 2002.
- Charity, Self-Interest, and Welfare in the English Past byCall Number: General Collection HV 245 .C5865 1996The Neale Colloquium in British History
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996 - England’s Road to Social Security byCall Number: General Collection HV 245 .D42 1961A Perpetua Book, P-4051. New York: Barnes, 1961.
- “An Early Tudor Poor Law.” The Economic History Review bynew ser. 6, no. 1 (1953): 55-67
- Social Welfare in Pre-Industrial England: The Old Poor Law Tradition byCall Number: General Collection HV 245 .F53 2006New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
- “Whatever Happened to 43 Elizabeth I, c.2?” Social Service Review by56, no. 1 (March 1982): 108-119
- Your Majesty's Poor Subject: The Crown and the Poor in Tudor and Jacobean England, 1485-1625 byPh.D. diss., University of California, Irvine, 2004
- Commonwealth, Social Order, and the Tudor Poor Laws byPh.D. diss., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1998
- History of the Law of Charity, 1532-1827 byCall Number: General Collection KD .J65Cambridge Studies in English Legal History. London: Cambridge University Press, 1969
- The Early History of English Poor Relief byCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900
Available full-text via Google Books - “Social Work Organizations.” Chapter 5 in Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare, Volume 1, ed. Barbara W. White byCall Number: Reference HV 40 .C635 2008pages 76-77
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2008 - Controlling Misbehavior in England, 1370-1600 byCall Number: General Collection HN 398 .E5 M38 1998Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy, and Society in Past Time, 34. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998
- Poor Relief in England, 1350-1600 byCall Number: General Collection HV 245 .M32 2012Publication Date: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012
- “Poverty, Charity, and Coercion in Elizabethan England.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History by35, no. 3 (Winter 2005): 457-479
- A History of the English Poor Law byCall Number: General Collection HV 245 .N62 1967Rev. ed. 3 vols. New York: A.M. Kelley, 1967
- Agrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500-1860: Rethinking the Origins of the Welfare State byCall Number: General Collection HV 249 .E89 P38 2007New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
- “Five Hundred Years of English Poor Law, 1349-1834: Regulating the Working and Nonworking Poor.” Akron Law Review by30, no. 1 (Fall 1996): 73-128
- “Lunatics and Idiots: Mental Disorder, the Community, and the Poor Law in North-East England, 1600-1800.” Medical History by32, no. 1 (January 1988): 34-50
- An Archaeology of Tudor Poor Law byM.A. thesis, University of Alberta, 2004
- Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England byCall Number: General Collection HC 254.4 .S42 1988Themes in British Social History. New York: Longman, 1988
- The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 byCall Number: General Collection HV 245 .S57 1990Studies in Economic and Social History. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1990
- Tudor Economic Documents, Volume Two: Commerce, Finance and the Poor Law byCall Number: General Collection HC 251 .T3 1965London: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1965
- English Poor Law History byCall Number: General Collection HV 245 .P3 1963English Local Government, vols. 7-9. London: F. Cass, 1963