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A typology of travellers : migration, justice, and vagrancy in Warwickshire, 1670–1730
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Hitchcock, David (Researcher in history) (2012) A typology of travellers : migration, justice, and vagrancy in Warwickshire, 1670–1730. Rural History, Volume 23 (Number 1). pp. 21-39. doi:10.1017/S0956793311000136
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0956793311000136
Abstract
This paper examines the relief of travellers in Warwickshire, England. By using an unusually rich set of Constables Accounts for the parish of Grandborough, it interrogates the relationship between charity, local justice, and both official and popular perceptions of migration. It argues that the large number of migrants who passed through rural parishes were categorised by the local constable according to cultural and discretionary criteria. This typology of travellers determined the nature and extent of the relief they might receive and the actions that might be taken against them. Socially threatening migrants, such as poor pregnant women, the sick, and vagrants, also found themselves affected by this same proscriptive calculation, often to their detriment.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Great Britain -- History -- 1660-1714, Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 17th century , English Travellers (Nomadic people), Migrant labor -- England -- Warwickshire, Vagrancy -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Rural History | ||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
| ISSN: | 0956-7933 | ||||
| Official Date: | April 2012 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 23 | ||||
| Number: | Number 1 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 21-39 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0956793311000136 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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