Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700 1950 Book

List of figures     x
List of tables     xii
Preface and acknowledgements     xiii
Introduction - belonging and local attachment     1
The culture of local xenophobia     28
Settlement, parochial belonging and entitlement     81
Rural societies and their marriage patterns     162
'A cruel kindness': parish out-door relief and the new poor law     207
Nailed to the church door? Parish overseers and the new poor law     339
Three centuries of new parishes     366
'Of this parish': gravestones, belonging and local attachment     454
Conclusion - belonging, parish and community     496
Select bibliography     505
Subject and persons index     519
Places index     532