Pauper inventories were made by officials to record the possessions that people on poor relief owned. This book contains transcriptions of 230 of these inventories from Norfolk alongside four comprehensive chapters which detail the source's importance to readers. These documents reveal powerful insights into the living conditions of the poor.
Pauper inventories were made by officials to record the possessions that people on poor relief owned. This book contains transcriptions of 230 of these inventories from Norfolk alongside four comprehensive chapters which detail the source's importance to readers. These documents reveal powerful insights into the living conditions of the poor.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Joseph Harley is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Derby. He held an Economic History Society fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London and has previously taught at the University of Leicester and Loughborough University. He is an expert in poverty, consumption and welfare in Britain during the long eighteenth century (c.1650-1850) and has published articles in Historical Journal, Social History, and Continuity and Change.
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List of figures and maps Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Pauper inventories as a historical source The context and practice of making pauper inventories Legality of the practice Parish motives to make pauper inventories Conclusion The sample of Norfolk inventories The sample Geographical and socio-economic distribution of pauper inventories Chronological distribution of pauper inventories Types of paupers whose goods were inventoried Conclusion The structure and content pauper inventories Layout and format Representativeness of items recorded in pauper inventories Usefulness of pauper inventories for studying material life Conclusion Transcription conventions and editorial principles Pauper inventories Ashwellthorpe Besthorpe Bressingham Brockdish Bunwell Carbrooke Cawston Forncett St. Peter Gissing Hapton East Harling West Harling Hilgay Hingham Holme-next-the-Sea Hopton Horningtoft Ingworth Letton Loddon Martham Great Moulton with Little Moulton Norwich, St. Mary in the Marsh Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell Shelton Shimpling Shipdham Stratton St. Mary Surlingham Tharston Trowse Wighton Winfarthing Yelverton with Alpington Appendices Appendix 1: List of pauper inventories by settlement Appendix 2: List of pauper inventories by surname Appendix 3: List of pauper inventories by date Glossary of inventory terms Primary sources Bibliography
List of figures and maps Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Pauper inventories as a historical source The context and practice of making pauper inventories Legality of the practice Parish motives to make pauper inventories Conclusion The sample of Norfolk inventories The sample Geographical and socio-economic distribution of pauper inventories Chronological distribution of pauper inventories Types of paupers whose goods were inventoried Conclusion The structure and content pauper inventories Layout and format Representativeness of items recorded in pauper inventories Usefulness of pauper inventories for studying material life Conclusion Transcription conventions and editorial principles Pauper inventories Ashwellthorpe Besthorpe Bressingham Brockdish Bunwell Carbrooke Cawston Forncett St. Peter Gissing Hapton East Harling West Harling Hilgay Hingham Holme-next-the-Sea Hopton Horningtoft Ingworth Letton Loddon Martham Great Moulton with Little Moulton Norwich, St. Mary in the Marsh Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell Shelton Shimpling Shipdham Stratton St. Mary Surlingham Tharston Trowse Wighton Winfarthing Yelverton with Alpington Appendices Appendix 1: List of pauper inventories by settlement Appendix 2: List of pauper inventories by surname Appendix 3: List of pauper inventories by date Glossary of inventory terms Primary sources Bibliography
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