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Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700

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Objects of Poverty is the first volume dedicated to analysing the material culture of poverty in British history from 1700 to the present.

The book examines the history of poverty through the objects 'owned' by the poor and those crafted, repurposed or simply encountered by them, offering critical new insights into the experience of being impoverished.

This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars who draw on a wide array of 'objects of poverty' from those that survive today,...