The Pauper Body in England and Wales 1750 to 1914 : Histories of Nobody

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The Pauper Body in England and Wales 1750 to 1914 contains a unique collection of pauper letters, rediscovered across England and Wales. It features fascinating stories of how ordinary people in poverty lived within bodies that became broken. Today, these histories of nobody, turn out to resemble everyone else, everywhere.