Based entirely on research from primary sources, this book describes the development of the Scottish Poor Law as an instrument for the preservation of the old a

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Most historians portray 19th-century county asylums as the exclusive realm of the asylum doctor, but Bartlett (law, U. of Nottingham) argues that they should be

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