Objects of Poverty

Material Culture in Britain from 1700
Herausgeber: Harley, Joseph; Holmes, Vicky

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the history of poverty in Britain by analysing objects crafted, owned, used and experienced by those living in poverty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781350368170
• ISBN-10: 1350368172
• Artikelnr.: 72488372

Autorenporträt

Joseph Harley is a Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Vicky Holmes is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Notre Dame London, The University of Notre Dame (USA) in England.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction
Joseph Harley and Vicky Holmes (Anglia Ruskin University
UK and Notre Dame London
The University of Notre Dame (USA) in England
UK) Part I: Objects of Sustenance 1. Bread: The Matter That Mattered Most
Carl Griffin (University of Sussex
UK) 2. Global Goods to Pauper Provisions under the Old Poor Law: Evidence from Overseers' Vouchers
1765-1834
Peter Collinge (Keele University
UK) 3. 'Full of saloop with fire under it': Teaware
Saloop Stalls and Warmth on the Streets of Georgian London
Freya Purcell (Victoria & Albert Museum
UK) Part II: Objects of Home 4. From Cradle to Grave? The Enduring Afterlife of the Egg Box in Victorian London
Vicky Holmes (Notre Dame London
The University of Notre Dame (USA) in England
UK) 5. From Improvised to Subsidised Safety: Fireguards
Jonathan Reinarz and Shane Ewen (University of Birmingham
UK and Leeds Metropolitan University
UK) 6. Coal in the Bath: Poverty
Modernity and the Welfare State in Postwar Britain
Michael Lambert (Lancaster University
UK) Part III: Crafted Objects 7. Creativity in Poverty: British Sailors' Craft in the Long Nineteenth Century
Maya Wassell Smith (Royal Museums Greenwich
UK) 8. Buttons for Whistles in the Late-Victorian
Early Edwardian era: Unbranded Calls
Emily Cockayne (University of East Anglia
UK) 9. Makeshift Dolls and Working-Class Childhood
c. 1880-1930
Emily Cuming (Liverpool John Moores University
UK) Part IV: Objects of Childhood 10. Toys for the Poor
c. 1700-1918
Ken Sneath (University of Cambridge
UK) 11. 'Models of Needlework': A Needlework Sample Book from the Dublin Female Orphan House
Eliza McKee (Queen's University Belfast
Northern Ireland) 12. Fragmentary Findings: A Victorian School Needlework Sample
Vivienne Richmond (Goldsmiths
University of London
UK) Part V: Living Objects 13. The Poor's Best Friend? Dog Ownership and Companionship in England
c. 1780-1880
Joseph Harley (Anglia Ruskin University
UK) 14. 'Up With the Hen House': Chickens
Coops and Class Identity in British Municipal Cottage Estates
1920-1950
Lesley Hoskins and Rebecca Preston (Buckinghamshire New University
UK and English Heritage London
UK) Part VI: Monetary Objects 15. "Was much Reduced and had been under the necesity to Pawn his Cloaths": Parish Payments to Redeem Pawned Goods in London in the Long Eighteenth Century
Samantha Williams (University of Cambridge
UK) 16. 'No Money Value': The Salvation Army Social Work Tokens in the Late Nineteenth Century
Flore Janssen (Salvation Army International Heritage Centre
UK) 17. The Purses of the Poor: Money
Autonomy and Everyday Life in Victorian and Edwardian England
Julie-Marie Strange (University of Durham
UK) Part VII: Workhouse Objects 18. Going to Bed in the Workhouse: Facilities
Practices and Implications in the 1790s
Alannah Tomkins (Keele University
UK) 19. Scraps and Samplers: The Form and Function of Textile Artefacts in the Nineteenth Century Workhouse
Karen Thompson
Peter Jones and Steven King (University of Glasgow
UK and Nottingham Trent University
UK) 20. Investigating All They Possessed: Depredation
Damage and Defiance in the Vagrant Ward 1834 to 1900
Megan Yates (University of Leicester
UK) VIII. Objects of Injury and Death 21. 'Ought I Not to Have Been Grateful?': Wooden Legs as Military Charity
1800-1850s
Caroline Louise Nielsen (University of Northampton
UK) 22. Medical Objects: The Sick Poor and Their Relief in the Long Nineteenth-Century
Steven King & Peter Jones (University of Glasgow
UK and Nottingham Trent University
UK) 23. Inscription Gravestones: Poverty and Commemoration in the Late Nineteenth Century
Rebecca Senior (University of Nottingham
UK) Bibliography