The State of the Poor
Or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period

Published in 1797, this three-volume work describes poverty in England and the various measures introduced to deal with it.

Frederick Morton Eden (Author)

9781108036887, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2011

706 pages
29.7 x 21 x 3.6 cm, 1.66 kg

Sir Frederick Morton Eden (1766–1809) was an English writer and a pioneer social researcher. Eden studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and subsequently worked in banking and insurance, inheriting a baronetcy from his father, who had been the governor of the American province of Maryland, in 1784. Arguing that poverty could not be tackled without knowing what it actually meant to be poor, this innovative three-volume work is an attempt to define what poverty meant in concrete terms. It is packed with data from across England, divided by county, and covering factors such as food prices, wages, diet and mortality rates. It begins with an explanation of the methods of data collection used, and outlines the various measures taken against poverty in different periods. Volume 2 presents the first set of reports on living conditions of the poor in the various English counties, sorted alphabetically, from Bedfordshire to Suffolk.

Parochial Reports - England: Bedfordshire
Berks.
Bucks.
Cheshire
Cornwall
Cumberland
Derbyshire
Devon
Dorsetshire
Durham
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Middlesex
Monmouthshire
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Rutland
Shropshire
Somersetshire
Staffordshire
Suffolk.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]