The consequences of extreme poverty were a grim reality for all too many people in Victorian England. The various poor laws implemented in response contained a

Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered

Medical Negligence in Victorian Britain is the first detailed exploration of the hundreds of charges of neglect against doctors who were contracted to the 'new'

A new perspective on the place of the workhouse in the history and geography of nineteenth-century society and social policy.

The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that underpinned the expansion of medical education from Victori