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Death in Llantrisant: Henry Williams and the New Poor Law in Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2004

JOHN STEWART  and
STEVE KING
JOHN STEWART
Affiliation:
Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK
STEVE KING
Affiliation:
Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK
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Abstract

This article first examines the recent historiography of the Poor Law, notes the dearth of historical writing on this topic with respect to Wales and then uses an incident which took place in the rural Welsh town of Llantrisant in the early 1840s which clearly exemplifies both particularly Welsh characteristics and those of the medical services of the New Poor Law. It is contended that further study of the welfare regime in nineteenth-century Wales is important for both Welsh history and for the broader historical understanding of the Poor Laws in rural areas.

Type
Research Article
Information
Rural History , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , April 2004 , pp. 69 - 87
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

An early version of this paper was given at the European Social Science History Conference, The Hague, February 2002. The authors are grateful for the useful comments this elicited, particularly those of Lynn Hollen Lees, Lynn Botelho, and David Green. They also wish to acknowledge the informative and insightful observations of this journal's anonymous referees, and the staff at Glamorgan Record Office.