Pauperland: A Short History of Poverty in Britain by Jeremy Seabrook

Pauperland: A Short History of Poverty in Britain

Jeremy Seabrook

288 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called "Pauperland." More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread in Britain. Yet despite the investigations into poverty by Mayhew, Booth...

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