Auteur: Leonard Schwarz

When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently w …

Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries workhouses were a key provider of medical care to the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain far outnumbered beds provided by charitable hospitals, and a h …

This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout the e …

Your next-door neighbor’s two-year-old broke your most expensive vase, and your neighbor hasn’t offered to replace it. Your best friend expects you to shop at the boutique she just opened, though her …