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Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England

The book should be double-weighted because, as a pioneering work concerned with the great variety of individuals and institutions that attempted to influence the dress of the poor, it required the collection and analysis of a considerable body of material including an especially extensive range of primary sources. These included autobiographies, diaries, newspapers, periodicals, instruction manuals, Parliamentary Papers relating to employment, education, prisons, lunatic asylums and the Poor Law, parish magazines, charity and Poor Law records, census returns, fiction and sermons gathered from 4 major online and 13 geographically-widespread physical archives.