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Almshouses: A Social and Architectural History
Brian Howson
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We have, in the United Kingdom, a well-established and well documented tradition of provision for our old folk, predominantly charitable in origin and reaching back over a thousand years. The organisations providing this care are known generically as almshouse charities. In Almshouses: A Social and Architectural History Brian Howson outlines the development of almshouses, from their origins as medieval hospitals, adjuncts of the monastic system, through Tudor and Stuart periods, when the concept of the almshouse as a self-contained dwelling emerged, to Georgian and Victorian times when the provision became more urban than rural in character and philanthropic in sponsorship.
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Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752442587
SKU
V9780752442587
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99-10
About Brian Howson
Brian Howson has been researching the history of almshouses for the past two decades.
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