"I helpt to nurse": unpaid care work by Georgian spinsters, 1780-1820
(2022)
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Tomkins. (2022). "I helpt to nurse": unpaid care work by Georgian spinsters, 1780-1820. The UKAHN Bulletin, 10(1),
Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914 (2021)
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Tomkins. (2021). Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914. Albion, 285-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.242Histories of the English workhouse and its satellite institutions have concentrated on legal change, institutional administration, and moments of shock or scandal, generally without considering the place of these institutions, established through the... Read More about Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914.
Well fed, nurs'd and doctor'd: Workhouse Medical Care from Working-Class Biographies c.1750-1834
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Tomkins. Well fed, nurs'd and doctor'd: Workhouse Medical Care from Working-Class Biographies c.1750-1834