Table of Contents

The Neale Colloquium in British History, Notes on contributors, 1 Introduction, 2 Charity, self-interest and welfare: reflections from demographic and family history, 3 Some recent trends in the history of charity, 4 Charity and poor relief in early modern Italy, 5 Aged and impotent: parish relief of the aged poor in early modern Suffolk, 6 Old people and their families in the English past, 7 The “mixed economy of welfare” in early modern England: assessments of the options from Hale to Malthus (c. 1683–1803), 8 “Grasping gratitude”: charity and hospital finance in late-Victorian London, 9 Women, social work and social welfare in twentieth-century Britain: from (unpaid) influence to (paid) oblivion?, 10 Risk, redistribution and social welfare in Britain from the poor law to Beveridge, 11 Some concluding reflections, Index

About the Author

Martin Daunton