A caring county? : social welfare in Hertfordshire from 1600.
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Hatfield, Hertfordshire :
Hertfordshire Publications, an imprint of University of Hertfordshire Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Hertfordshire in context / Steven King
- 2. Old Poor Law and medicine in and around Hertford, 1700--1834 / Robert Dimsdale
- 3. Caring for the sick and poor in eighteenth-century Royston / Carla Herrmann
- 4. Madhouses of Hertfordshire, 1735--1903 / Gary Moyle
- 5. Caring for the poor in East Hertfordshire c. 1620--50 / Alan Thomson
- 6. Pensions and the care of the elderly in Ashwell, 1670--1770 / David Short
- 7. Looking after the poor: Cheshunt parish workhouse in the mid-eighteenth century / Sheila White
- 8. Old Poor Law in a rural North Hertfordshire parish, 1731--1831 / Helen Hofton
- Introduction to Chapters 9--11: A note on the history of the London Foundling Hospital / Jennifer Sherwood
- 9. Foundling Hospital children at nurse in Hertfordshire in the eighteenth century / David Allin
- 10. Prudence West and the Foundling Hospital in Barnet, 1757--1771 / Yvonne Tomlinson
- 11. last years of the Foundling Hospital
- Berkhamsted, 1935--55 / Jennifer Sherwood
- 12. Hertfordshire's relationship with certified industrial schools, 1857--1933 / Gillian Gear.