| The English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 Vol 5 Subjects: Class and Work; Rural and Urban Life; Agencies and Institutions; Recreation and Consumption; Family and Demography; Health and Welfare; Humanities; Social Groups; Poverty; Types of Towns and Cities; Education; The Rural Environment; Family; The Home; Urbanisation; Welfare; Working Conditions; History; Working Classes; Villages; Household Size; Rural Depopulation; Old Age Pensions; Wages; 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 |