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Author to Discuss England’s Poor Relief System |
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Vicki L. Kroll |
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Oct 27, 2004 |
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Dr. Steve Hindle will talk about “Understanding Social Policy in Early Modern England” on Friday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Student Union Room 2592.
Hindle is a professor of history at the University of Warwick in England. He has written two books, On the Parish: The Micropolitics of Poor Relief in Rural England, 1550-1700 (2004) and The State of Social Change in Early Modern England, ca 1550-1640 (2000).
He will discuss poor relief in Early Modern England — how the parish deemed who was deserving, who wasn’t and why.
Hindle is contributing to a forthcoming book titled Children Bound to Labor in Early America being edited by Dr. Ruth Herndon, UT professor of history, and Dr. John Murray, UT associate professor of economics.
“This will be an edited volume of essays about Early America children and the apprenticeships arranged through public officials, judges, overseers of the poor and orphan courts in some colonies and states,” Murray said. “The book will provide an understanding of how children began their working life in early America starting chronologically in the middle of the 17th century and running up through the middle of the 19th century.”
Hindle and Herndon are writing about the similarities in public apprenticeship in England and New England, respectively. “The source of the colonial poor law system was English poor law, but early Americans adapted it to their local needs as they saw fit.,” Herndon said.
Hindle will be introduced by Dr. Peter Linebaugh, UT professor of history and author of The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2000) and The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in 18th Century (1991).
For more information on the free, public lecture, call the UT history department at 419.530.2845.
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