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The Loes and Wilford Poor Law Incorporation 1765–1826: ‘A Prison with a Milder Name’

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JohnShaw, ed., Woodbridge, Suffolk Record Society, The Boydell Press, 2019, 501 pp., £40, 9781783273829 hb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2021

Matthew Bayly
Matthew Bayly*
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Nottingham Trent University and University of Lincoln
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Rural History , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , April 2021 , pp. 115 - 119
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