The Settlement of the Poor in England, c.1660-1780

"The settlement of the poor in England is about social change and about history's unintended consequences. It is also about the struggles and experiences of individuals and communities. The settlement of the poor that emerged in 1662 still resonates today"--

Naomi Tadmor is Professor of History at the University of Lancaster and Chair of the Social History Society. She is co-editor of The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (1996) and author of Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage (2001), and The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society, and Culture in Early Modern England (2010), all published by Cambridge.