Lack of a certain amount of material possessions or money

concept

Transplanting of teeth.

Shoes and legs of a woman holding a handbag standing next to an advertising banner with the statement: 'People with HIV in poverty row; Daily Gossip'; advertisement for the Terrence Higgins Trust advice centre. Colour lithograph.

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.

Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].

A woman in ragged clothing stands inside a stone niche holding a bowl; representing poverty. Coloured aquatint by H. Shaw, 1843.

Life and labour of the people in London / edited by Charles Booth.

St. John of God carrying a sick patient from a hospital ward. Line engraving by G. Petrini.

A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.

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

A man drinking in a tavern in the company of figures representing poverty and death induced by alcohol. Colour lithograph by J.-J. Waltz (Hansi), 1905.

The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.

Cycles of disadvantage : a review of research / Michael Rutter, Nicola Madge.

Statements relative to the present prevalence of epidemic fever among the poorer classes of Glasgow : together with some suggestions, both for affording more adequate assistance to the sick, and for checking the farther progress of the contagion in a letter, addressed to the Honourable, the Lord Provost of Glasgow / by Richard Millar.

Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).

Unhealthy places : the ecology of risk in the urban landscape / Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory.

An ignorant young doctor telling poverty-stricken people to feed and look after their children properly. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.

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Poverty

Images from the collections

Images referencing Poverty

Works from the collections

Cycles of disadvantage : a review of research / Michael Rutter, Nicola Madge.

Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).

Unhealthy places : the ecology of risk in the urban landscape / Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory.

An ignorant young doctor telling poverty-stricken people to feed and look after their children properly. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.

Poverty

Images from the collections

Images referencing Poverty

Works from the collections

Cycles of disadvantage : a review of research / Michael Rutter, Nicola Madge.

Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).

Unhealthy places : the ecology of risk in the urban landscape / Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory.

An ignorant young doctor telling poverty-stricken people to feed and look after their children properly. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.

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