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At Home with the Poor

Harley, Joseph
At Home with the Poor
This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor owned greater numbers and varieties of items with each generation and that poverty did not always mean living in squalor.

CHF 169.00

The Working Class at Home, 1790¿1940

Harley, Joseph / Nevalainen, Laika / Holmes, Vicky
The Working Class at Home, 1790¿1940
This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let alone acquire the comforts associated with middle-class domestic space. The concerned reformers of industrialising towns and cities painted a picture of severe deprivation, of rooms that...

CHF 168.00

The Working Class at Home, 1790¿1940

Harley, Joseph / Nevalainen, Laika / Holmes, Vicky
The Working Class at Home, 1790¿1940
This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let alone acquire the comforts associated with middle-class domestic space. The concerned reformers of industrialising towns and cities painted a picture of severe deprivation, of rooms that...

CHF 168.00

Norfolk Pauper Inventories, c.1690-1834

Harley, Joseph
Norfolk Pauper Inventories, c.1690-1834
Pauper inventories were made by officials to record the possessions that people on poor relief owned. This book contains transcriptions of 230 of these inventories from Norfolk alongside four comprehensive chapters which detail the source's importance to readers. These documents reveal powerful insights into the living conditions of the poor.

CHF 116.00