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D.Englander

Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth Century Britain, 1834-1914.

M.E.Rose

The Relief of Poverty 1834-1914.

M.A.Crowther

'The Workhouse', T.C.Smout (ed); Victorian Values; Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 78 (1992).

D.Fraser (ed.)

The New Poor Law in the Nineteenth Century.

N.Edsall

The Anti-Poor Law Movement.

M.E.Rose

'The Anti-Poor Law Agitation', J.T.Ward (ed.) Popular Movements, 1830-1850.

U.R.Q.Henriques

'How Cruel was the Victorian Poor Law?' ibid. (1968).

P.Dunkley

'The Hungry Forties and the New Poor Law', Hist. Jnl. (1974).

H.M.Boot

'Unemployment and Poor Relief in Manchester, 1845-50,' Social History (1990).

C.Emsley

The English Police

D.Taylor

The New Police; Crime, Conflict and Control in Nineteenth Century England.

A.Brundage

'Ministers, Magistrates, and Reformers; the Genesis of the Rural Constabulary Act of 1839', Parliamentary History (1986).

D. Philips

''A New Engine of Power and Authority'; The Institutionalisation of Law Enforcement in England, 1750-1850,' V.A.C.Gattrell, B.Lenman and G.Parker (eds.) Crime and the Law.

D.Jones

'The New police, Crime and People in England and Wales, 1829-1888', Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (1983).

J.Hart

'Reform of the Borough Police, 1835-56', Eng. Hist. Rev. (1955).

J.Hart

'The Country and Borough Police Act, 1856', Public Administration (1956).

R.Swift

'Urban Policing in Early Victorian England; A Reappraisal', History (1988).

C.Steedman

Policing the Victorian Community; the Formation of English Provincial Police Forces 1856-80.

R.E.Foster

'A Cure for Crime? The Hampshire Constabulary, 1839-1856,' Southern History (1990).

R.D.Storch

'The Plague of Blue Locusts; Police Reform & Popular Resistance in Northen England, 1840-57', Int. Rev. Social Hist. (1975).

R.Porter

Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860.

A.S.Wohl

Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain.

F.B.Smith

The People's Health 1830-1910.

E.P.Hennock

'Urban Sanitary Reform a generation before Chadwick,' Economic History Review, (1957).

R.A.Lewis

Edwin Chadwick and the Public Health Movement, 1832-1854.

B.Keith-Lucas

'Some Influences affaceting the Development of Saniary Legislation in England,' Economic History Review (1954).

S.Halliday

The Great Stink of London; Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis.

T.Ferguson

'Public Health in Britain in the Climate of the Nineteenth Century,' Population Studies (1964).

N.Williams

'The Implementation of Compulsory Health Legislation; Infant Smallpox Vaccination, 1840-1890,' Journal of Historical Geography (1994).

C.Hamlin

'Providence and Putrefaction: Victorian Sanitarians and the Natural Theology of Health and Disease', Vict. Studies (1985).

C.Hamlin

'Meddling in Bumbledom; On the Enormity of Large Sanitary Improvement in Four British Towns,' Victorian Studies (1988).

A.S.Wohl

The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London.