Huguenot poor relief in Hanoverian London : assistance to widows in the period 1735-1750 : a thesis submitted to the Department of History, Massey University for the degree of Master of Arts with Honours

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dc.contributor.authorBarrett, Eileen
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-06T01:52:21Z
dc.date.available2019-03-06T01:52:21Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.descriptionSome French throughout.en_US
dc.description.abstractBy the end of the seventeenth century London's French Protestant community numbered over 20,000, constituting some five per cent of the capital's population.¹Robin D. Gwynn Huguenot Heritage: The History and Contribution of the Huguenots in Britain (London: Routledge, 1985) p.36 Many had come during the 1680s and 1690s, fleeing from religious persecution in Louis XIV's France and arriving destitute, thus creating extra demands for poor relief.²Poor relief provided to widows of this community (both newly-arrived and longer-established) during the period 1681-1695 has already been the focus of a previous study: Eileen Barrett "Poor Relief Provided to Huguenot Widows, 1681-1695, through the French Church of London: a Preliminary Study" (Unpublished BA Hons research essay, Massey Univ., 1996) The present research investigates what assistance was still needed some two generations later when the community might be thought to have settled down after the turmoil of the refugee period. Little work has so far been done on immigrant populations in eighteenth-century England, and the women of immigrant communities have received even less attention.³Anne Laurence Women in England 1500-1760: a Social History (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994) p.25 The category of widows is used as a sample for this study because they form an identifiable group of manageable size within the female Huguenot population. Widows also figure prominently as recipients of poor relief under the old English Poor Laws, so there is a rich store of comparative literature. [From Introduction]en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/14401
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectLondon England Historyen_US
dc.subject18th century Historyen_US
dc.subjectHuguenotsen_US
dc.subjectServices for widowsen_US
dc.subjectPooren_US
dc.titleHuguenot poor relief in Hanoverian London : assistance to widows in the period 1735-1750 : a thesis submitted to the Department of History, Massey University for the degree of Master of Arts with Honoursen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorBarrett, Eileen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
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