Outputs (20)

Bricks, brick-making, and the economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834 (2024)
Journal Article
Tomkins, A. (in press). Bricks, brick-making, and the economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834. Midland History, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2024.2303645

This article considers the place of brickmaking as an activity supported or promoted by parish poor relief. Parochial work schemes were typically founded on agricultural work, textile manufacturing, or unskilled tasks like oakum picking, yet the man... Read More about Bricks, brick-making, and the economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834.

The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2023)
Journal Article
Tomkins, A. (2023). The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, 20(4), 121-122. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10829354

Victorians & Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2023)
Journal Article
Tomkins, A. (in press). Victorians & Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Cultural and Social History, 20(4), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2241739

Stafford Infirmary and the ‘unreformed’ nurse, 1765-1820 (2023)
Book Chapter
Tomkins. (2023). Stafford Infirmary and the ‘unreformed’ nurse, 1765-1820. In Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham (267-287)

Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction: by Lyndsay Galpin, 2022, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 193pp, £85.00 (hardback), £76.50 (ebook), ISBN: 9781350264892 (2023)
Journal Article
Tomkins, A. (2023). Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction: by Lyndsay Galpin, 2022, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 193pp, £85.00 (hardback), £76.50 (ebook), ISBN: 9781350264892. Women's History Review, 32(3), 435-436. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2022.2160104

Male Nurses in England and Europe Before 1820: Beyond the Madhouse (2023)
Journal Article
Tomkins. (2023). Male Nurses in England and Europe Before 1820: Beyond the Madhouse. Nursing History Review, 31, 150-170

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I., Blake, M., Sargent, A., & Tomkins, A. (2022). Introduction. In Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham

"I helpt to nurse": unpaid care work by Georgian spinsters, 1780-1820 (2022)
Journal Article
Tomkins. (2022). "I helpt to nurse": unpaid care work by Georgian spinsters, 1780-1820. The UKAHN Bulletin, 10(1),

Providing for the Poor The Old Poor Law, 1750-1834 Conclusion (2022)
Book Chapter
Tomkins. (2022). Providing for the Poor The Old Poor Law, 1750-1834 Conclusion. In Providing for the Poor: The Old Poor Law, 1750–1834 (219 - 226)

The Overseers' Assistant: taking a parish salary, 1800-1834 (2022)
Book Chapter
Tomkins. (2022). The Overseers' Assistant: taking a parish salary, 1800-1834. In Providing for the Poor: the Old Poor Law 1750-1834 (137 - 166). https://doi.org/10.14296/npin8958