Description: The first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century: the first century of welfare.
Brief description: JONATHAN HEALEY is a Fellow of Kellogg College and University Lecturer in English Local and Social History at the University of Oxford.
Review Quotes: Makes a remarkable contribution to the study of crises and poverty.. [T]here is much food for thought and re-thinking here.-- "NORTHERN HISTORY"