Journal article
Kin support and the English poor: evidence from Lancashire, c.1620–1710
- Abstract:
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The ‘nuclear hardship hypothesis’, argued by Peter Laslett in 1988, holds that that the prevalence of the nuclear household in early modern England, and the apparent weakness of kinship interactions outside it, left the burden of caring for the vulnerable squarely on the ‘collectivity’, most obviously in the form of the Elizabethan poor law. But recent studies of family and kinship in English society have questioned the idea of the autonomous nuclear household, challenging us to reconsider th...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Historical Research Journal website
- Volume:
- 92
- Issue:
- 256
- Pages:
- 318-339
- Publication date:
- 2019-04-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-11-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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0950-3471
- ISSN:
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1468-2281
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:966851
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uuid:6ae4a2ae-fc88-4817-b15b-ce2145e8164a
- Local pid:
- pubs:966851
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966851
- Deposit date:
- 2019-01-30
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- Copyright holder:
- Institute of Historical Research
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 Institute of Historical Research.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12255
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