Chapter 1 Introduction: Chronicling Poverty — The Voices and Strategies of the English Poor, 1640–1840

Chapter 2 Going on the Parish: The Parish Pension and its Meaning in the London Suburbs, 1640–1724

Chapter 3 London Domestic Servants from Depositional Evidence, 1660–1750: Servant-Employer Sexuality in the Patriarchal Household

Chapter 4 ‘Unlawfully begotten on her body’: Illegitimacy and the Parish Poor in St Luke’s Chelsea

Chapter 5 ‘The bowels of compation’: A Labouring Family and the Law, c. 1790–1834

Chapter 7 Old Age in Poverty: The Record of Essex Pauper Letters, 1780–1834

Chapter 8 Pauper Inventories and the Material Lives of the Poor in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 9 ‘An old offender tho’ so young in years’: The Criminal Careers of Juvenile Offenders in Middlesex in the 1830s

Chapter 10 ‘The poor in blindnes’: Letters from Mildenhall, Wiltshire, 1835–6