Recommended Reading for 'Poverty and the British State: c.1815-50'

- E J Evans, The Birth of Modern Britain, 1780-1914 (chapter 14), Addison Wesley Longman Longman Advanced History series, 1997

- P Murray, Poverty and Welfare, 1815-1914, Hodder & Stoughton Access to History series

- J D Marshall, The Old Poor Law, 1795-1834, Macmillan, Studies in Economic and Social History, 2nd ed., 1995

- M E Rose, The Relief of Poverty, 1834-1914, Macmillan, Studies in Economic and Social History, 2nd ed., 1986

- D Englander, Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Britain: From Chadwick to Booth, 1834-1914 Addison Wesley Longman, 1998, Seminar Studies in History

- F Crompton, Workhouse Children, Stroud-Sutton Sutton Studies in Modern British History, 1997

- M Lynch, An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century British History: 1800-1914, Hodder & Stoughton Access to History Context, 1999

- R Brown, Society and Economy in modern Britain, 1700-1850,Routledge, 1991

- D Fraser, The Evolution of the British Welfare State (chapter 3), Macmillan, 3rd ed., 1983

- R Rees, Poverty and Public Health, 1815-1914, Heinemann Heinemann Advanced History, 2000