 | The English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 Vol 2 Subjects: Class and Work; Rural and Urban Life; Agencies and Institutions; Crime and Punishment; Recreation and Consumption; Family and Demography; Humanities; Social Groups; Poverty; The Rural Environment; Working Conditions; Education; Philanthropy; The Legal System; Alcohol; Family; Population; History; Working Classes; Middle Classes; Wages; Child labour; Regulations and Disciplines; Living Conditions; Landowndership; Judiciary; Drunkenness; Drawing on the difficult-to-access pamphlets, reports, periodical literature and political tracts, this five-volume set reproduces in facsimile a large number of neglected sources relating to rural life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is of interest to scholars in nineteenth-century studies and to all social historians. Mark Freeman |
