A History of Hoddesdon in the County of Hertfordshire. Being a Survey of that Hamlet from the Earliest Times, with an Account of Its Ancient Manors and Its Inhabitants
Title | A History of Hoddesdon in the County of Hertfordshire. Being a Survey of that Hamlet from the Earliest Times, with an Account of Its Ancient Manors and Its Inhabitants PDF eBook |
Author | J. A. Tregelles |
Publisher | |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Hoddesdon (England) |
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The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society
Title | The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society PDF eBook |
Author | Friends' Historical Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Society of Friends |
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On the Parish?
Title | On the Parish? PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Hindle |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 2004-08-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191533858 |
On the Parish? is a study of the negotiations which took place over the allocation of poor relief in the rural communities of sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth century England. It analyses the relationships between the enduring systems of informal support through which the labouring poor made attempts to survive for themselves; the expanding range of endowed charity encouraged by the late sixteenth century statutes for charitable uses; and the developing system of parish relief co-ordinated under the Elizabethan poor laws. Based on exhaustive research in the archives of the trustees who administered endowments, of the overseers of the poor who assessed rates and distributed pensions, of the magistrates who audited and co-ordinated relief and of the royal judges who played such an important role in interpreting the Elizabethan statutes, the book reconstructs the hierarchy of provision of relief as it was experienced among the poor themselves. It argues that receipt of a parish pension was only the final (and by no means the inevitable) stage in a protracted process of negotiation between prospective pensioners (or 'collectioners', as they came to be called) and parish officers. This running theme is itself reflected in a series of chapters whose sequence seeks to mirror the experience of indigence, moving gradually (and by stages) from the networks of care provided by kin and neighbours into the bureaucracy of the parish relief system, emphasising in particular the importance of labour discipline in the thinking of parish officers. By illuminating the workings of a relief system in which notions of entitlement were both under-developed and contested, On the Parish? provides historical perspective for contemporary debates about the rights and obligations of the poor in a society where the dismantling of the welfare state implies that there is, once again, no right to relief from cradle to grave.
Tracing Your Family History in Hertfordshire
Title | Tracing Your Family History in Hertfordshire PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Ward |
Publisher | Univ of Hertfordshire Press |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780954218928 |
"This practical and comprehensive guide provides an introduction for family historians to trace their ancestors in Hertfordshire. It is thematic in approach, the chapters incorporating related material on subjects as broad as military ancestors and the poor and the sick"--Publisher's description.
The Geography of Great Britain by George Long and George R. Porter
Title | The Geography of Great Britain by George Long and George R. Porter PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 550 |
Release | 1850* |
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English topography: or, A series of historical and statistical descriptions of the several counties of England and Wales, by the author of historical and descriptive delineations of London and Westminster (J. Nightingale).
Title | English topography: or, A series of historical and statistical descriptions of the several counties of England and Wales, by the author of historical and descriptive delineations of London and Westminster (J. Nightingale). PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Nightingale |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1816 |
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Brewers in Hertfordshire
Title | Brewers in Hertfordshire PDF eBook |
Author | Allan Whitaker |
Publisher | Univ of Hertfordshire Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780954218973 |
Brewing and its associated activities have been important industries in Hertfordshire for centuries. In this book, Allan Whitaker looks at the history of brewing in the county, from 1700 to the present day