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The English poor in the eighteenth century : a study in social and administrative history / by Dorothy Marshall.

Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.

In darkest England, and the way out / by General Booth.

The treatment of the sick poor of this country and the preservation of the health of the poor in this country : (Rogers prize essay, 1926) / by H.J. McCurrich.

The relief of poverty, 1834-1914 / prepared for the Economic History Society by Michael E. Rose.

Some poor relief questions : with the arguments on both sides, together with the summary of the report of the Royal Commission on the Aged Poor, and extracts from the evidence taken before that commission a manual for workers / by Miss Gertrude Lubbock.

Charles Booth and labour colonies, 1889-1905 / by John Brown.

Les misérables dans l'Occident médiéval / Jean-Louis Goglin.

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The treatment of the sick poor of this country and the preservation of the health of the poor in this country : (Rogers prize essay, 1926) / by H.J. McCurrich.

The relief of poverty, 1834-1914 / prepared for the Economic History Society by Michael E. Rose.

Some poor relief questions : with the arguments on both sides, together with the summary of the report of the Royal Commission on the Aged Poor, and extracts from the evidence taken before that commission a manual for workers / by Miss Gertrude Lubbock.

Charles Booth and labour colonies, 1889-1905 / by John Brown.

Les misérables dans l'Occident médiéval / Jean-Louis Goglin.