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Almshouses in Early Modern England
This book is an examination of early modern English almshouses in the 'mixed economy' of welfare. Drawing on archival evidence from three contrasting counties - Durham, Warwickshire and Kent - between 1550 and 1725, the book assesses the contribution almshouses made within the developing welfare systems of the time and the reasons for the enduring popularity of this particular form of charity. Post-Reformation almshouses are usually considered to have been places of privilege for the respectable deserving poor, operating outside the structure of parish poor relief to which ordinary poor people were subjected, and making little contribution to the genuinely poor and needy. This book challenges these assumptions through an exploration of the nature and extent of almshouse provision; it examines why almshouses were founded in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who the occupants were, what benefits they received and how residents were expected to live their lives. The book reveals a surprising variation in the socio-economic status of almspeople and their experience of almshouse life.
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Almshouses
In Almshouses: A Social and Architectural History Brian Howson outlines the development of almshouses, from their origins as mediaeval hospitals, through the Tudor and Stuart periods, to Georgian and Victorian times when the provision became more urban than rural in character and philanthropic in sponsorship.
Almshouses
Almshouses shelter offered by religious institutions to needy elderly people come in a variety of architectural styles and often have interesting features, including coats of arms, clock-towers and sundials, many have chapels and gardens.
Paupers in Almshouses 1910
Enumerates the numbers of paupers in almshouses on Jan 1, 1910 and admitted during 1910; the color, sex, age, nativity, and other personal characteristics, and the numbers who left almshouses by death discharge, or transfer. Contains data for the U.S., census regions, states, and individual institutions.
