Peter Jones

Steven King

At the heart of this book are the stories, in their own words, of ordinary people who fell into need and required the help of the local state in the early nineteenth century. We read their hopes, fears, detailed experiences of illness, and aspects of material conditions across a spectrum from nakedness and starvation to homelessness and eviction.

The Kirkby Lonsdale Letters, 1809-1836

Navigating the Old English Poor Law

Barry Manilow, illustrated colour biography.

Could It Be Magic?

Barry Manilow!

Pink Floyd, illustrated colour biography.

Wish You Were Here on the Dark Side of the Moon!

Pink Floyd

Barry Manilow & The Bee Gees, illustrated biography.

Night Fever!

Barry Manilow & the Bee Gees!

Debbie Harry - Chris Stein - Maria! - Atomic! - Heart of Glass

Blondie!

Natalie Wood, illustrated colour biography.

The Unsolved Mystery of the Tragic Hollywood Legend's End.

Natalie Wood - Murder Most Foul?

Women, Welfare and Local Politics 1880-1920 offers a reappraisal of the role of women in the politics and practice of welfare in late Victorian and early Edwardian England. Focusing on the Lancashire mill town of Bolton, this book traces the emergence of a core of female social and political activists from the 1860s and analyzes their achievements as they rose from the humble origins of a workhouse visiting committee to become pivotal players in the formulation and implementation of local welfare policy after 1894. Using a unique working diary written by the activist and female poor law Guardian Mary Haslam, the book portrays these Bolton women as sophisticated political operators. The author challenges established notions that women involved in local welfare administration were resented and achieved little, showing their importance in the process by which the Bolton Poor Law Union moved from being one of the most backward and obstructive to one of the most progressive and dynamic in the country, adopting the best practices from Britain and overseas and revolutionizing the material and psychological fabric of the poor law.

'we Might be Trusted'

Women, Welfare and Local Politics, 1880-1920

Geoff Monks

Despite the fact that their archives survive in volume and depth across the country, relatively little is known about the fascinating and complex role of the land agent across time. For the very first time, this volume brings together historians, practitioners and representatives of the bodies overseeing the continuing professional development of agents to explore, in overview and through detailed case studies, the wide variety of skills required by those entering this profession. At the core of the contributions here is the sense of continuity which exists between the Anglo-Saxon Reeve and the highly qualified modern land agent. Skills such as a working knowledge of farming, entrepreneurialism, the ability to ‘get on’ with a wide variety of stakeholders as well as estate owners, conservation, environmental management and adaptability to fast changing economic climates or technological possibilities remain as important today as they have been in the past. Fusing together historical and modern perspectives, the contributors both trace the development and refinement of these skills and begin to look to the future of estates and their agents in a post-Brexit world characterised by uncertain subsidies, persistently low food prices, radical changes in the intensity of weather patterns and the need once more to build strong economic and socio-cultural bridges between town and country.

Steven King

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