'All five volumes have much to offer the student of both eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century social welfare systems and cultures of everyday life. Taken individually, each volume provides not only a valuable research resource - which alone should justify the cost - but also a useful teaching tool.' Journal of Historical Geography 'The introductions and bibliographies contained in the collection offer readers a well-balanced understanding of the current state of British social history. [The editors] provide the reader with a comprehensive picture of poverty in eighteenth-century Britain.' British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Volume 1 Voices of the Poor: Poor Law Depositions and Letters, Volume 2 Voices from the Street, Volume 3 Institutional Responses: The London Foundling Hospital, Volume 4 Institutional Responses: The Refuge for the Destitute, Volume 5 Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698–1818

'All five volumes have much to offer the student of both eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century social welfare systems and cultures of everyday life. Taken individually, each volume provides not only a valuable research resource - which alone should justify the cost - but also a useful teaching tool.' Journal of Historical Geography 'The introductions and bibliographies contained in the collection offer readers a well-balanced understanding of the current state of British social history. [The editors] provide the reader with a comprehensive picture of poverty in eighteenth-century Britain.' British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Volume 1 Voices of the Poor: Poor Law Depositions and Letters, Volume 2 Voices from the Street, Volume 3 Institutional Responses: The London Foundling Hospital, Volume 4 Institutional Responses: The Refuge for the Destitute, Volume 5 Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698–1818

'All five volumes have much to offer the student of both eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century social welfare systems and cultures of everyday life. Taken individually, each volume provides not only a valuable research resource - which alone should justify the cost - but also a useful teaching tool.' Journal of Historical Geography 'The introductions and bibliographies contained in the collection offer readers a well-balanced understanding of the current state of British social history. [The editors] provide the reader with a comprehensive picture of poverty in eighteenth-century Britain.' British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Volume 1 Voices of the Poor: Poor Law Depositions and Letters, Volume 2 Voices from the Street, Volume 3 Institutional Responses: The London Foundling Hospital, Volume 4 Institutional Responses: The Refuge for the Destitute, Volume 5 Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698–1818