Community, Self-Help and Mutual Aid: Friendly Societies and the Parish Welfare System in Rural Oxfordshire, 1834-1918
<p>This thesis examines welfare provision in rural Oxfordshire after the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. The county had little industrial development, remained largely agricultural in nature, and the region had been perceived as a backwater of friendly society development.</p> <p>This...
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2012
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