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  • The Man Beside Her

    by Steven King ...
    She woke up in a flat she didn’t recognise. A man stood beside her, calling her by a name she didn’t remember. But something in his eyes chilled her.*"The Man Beside Her"* is a haunting psychological drama inspired by true events — a tale of trauma, identity, and the harrowing journey toward reclaiming one’s life.When Ada stirs in an unfamiliar London flat, everything she once knew is gone. Her ... Read more

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  • Petty Tyranny and Oppression

    Workhouse Lives Under the Long Nineteenth-Century Poor Laws

    This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor. The book examines the period from the late-eighteenth-century crisis of the Old Poor Law, through the adoption of the New Poor Law reform in 1834, the loosening of the 'principles of 1834' in the 1890s, and on past the early-twentieth ... Read more

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  • A Caring County?

    Social Welfare in Hertfordshire from 1600

    Edited by Steven King, Gillian Gear ...
    This comparative study gathers together new research by local historians into aspects of welfare in Hertfordshire spanning four centuries and focusing on towns and villages across the county, including Ashwell, Cheshunt, Hertford, Pirton, and Royston, amongst many others. In so doing it makes a valuable contribution to the current debate about the spatial and chronological variation in the ... Read more

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  • Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s

    by Steven King ...
    Series Book 1 - States, People, and the History of Social Change
    From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King reveals colourful stories of poor people, their advocates, and the officials with whom they engaged during this period in British history, distilled from the ... Read more

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  • Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 3

    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 5

    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials. ... Read more

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  • Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 2

    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials. ... Read more

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  • Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 4

    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 1

    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials. ... Read more

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  • The Asylum in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Volume I: Lunacy and Lunatic Asylums

    Edited by Steven King, Steven Taylor ...
    This volume is concerned with the public and private lunatics asylums of England in the long nineteenth century, focusing on transcriptions of unusual and difficult-to-access primary source materials. The Introduction to the volume deals broadly with the state of the literature in the field and details the complex primary materials. Our sources include letters written by or about the ‘mad poor’ as ... Read more

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  • Four Branches of Government in Our Founding Fathers’ Words

    A Document Disguised as a Book That Will Return the Power of Government to “We the People” and to Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances

    by Steven King ...
    Four Branches of Government The words that describe and name our branches of government in the Constitutions Articles I, II and III are the following in order of appearance: Congress, Senate, House of Representatives, Representative, Representatives, Senators, Senator, Vice President, the President of the United States, each House, either House, neither House, two Houses, that House, the other ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s

    by Steven King ...
    Series Book 1 - States, People, and the History of Social Change
    From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King reveals colourful stories of poor people, their advocates, and the officials with whom they engaged during this period in British history, distilled from the ... Read more

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