List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors

Introduction

Part I: Needlework and Clothing
1. 'Significance in a School Needlework Sample', Vivienne Richmond (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
2. 'Models of Needlework: A Needlework Sample Book from the Dublin Female Orphan House', Eliza McKee (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland)
3. 'The Poverty Oxymoron: Working-Class Fashionability in the 1930s', Cheryl Roberts (University of Brighton, UK)

Part II: Makeshift Items
4. 'Creativity in Poverty: British Sailors in the Long Nineteenth Century', Maya Wassell Smith (National Maritime Museum, UK and Cardiff University, UK)
5. 'Whistles from Buttons, c. 1900', Emily Cockayne (University of East Anglia, UK)
6. '“No Money Value”: The Salvation Army Social Work Tokens', Flore Janssen (Salvation Army International Heritage Centre, UK)

Part III: Home Life
7. 'From the Cradle to the Grave: The Repurposing of Orange Boxes in the Homes of the Victorian and Edwardian Poor', Vicky Holmes (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
8. '“Stone Age Standards of Conduct in the Cities of an Age of Steel”: Coal and Family Poverty in Affluent Britain, 1945-74', Michael Lambert (Lancaster University, UK)
9. 'Tenants and their Chickens: Rights, Regulation, and Resistance on London's Municipal Cottage Estates, 1920-1950', Rebecca Preston (English Heritage London, UK) and Lesley Hoskins (Buckinghamshire New University, UK)

Part IV: Food and Drink
10. 'Bread: The Matter that Mattered Most', Carl Griffin (University of Sussex, UK)
11. 'Respite/Work: The Use of Teawares in the Socio-Economic Space of the Saloop Stall', Freya Purcell (Victoria & Albert Museum, UK)

Part V: Pleasure and Enjoyment
12. 'The Purse: The Materiality of Money among the Economically Impoverished in Victorian Britain', Julie-Marie Strange (University of Durham, UK)
13. 'Dog Ownership among the Poor during the Old Poor Law, c. 1700-1834', Joseph Harley (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
14. 'Makeshift Dolls and Working-class Childhood', Emily Cuming (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)

Part VI: Institutional Life
15. 'Theft, Damage, and Defiance in the Vagrant Ward: Clothing the Vagrant 1840-1900', Megan Yates (University of Leicester, UK)
16. 'Scraps and Samplers: The Many Lives of Textiles in the 19th Century Workhouse', Karen Thompson (University of Glasgow, UK), Steven King (Nottingham Trent University, UK) and Peter Jones (University of Glasgow, UK)
17. 'Objects of the Pauper Insane, 1908-1923', Cara Dobbing (University of Leicester, UK)

Part VII: Sickness and Death
18. '“Ought I Not to Have Been Grateful? Somehow or Another…I was Not”: Military Charity, Disability and the Medical Marketplace for the Poor, 1750-1850s', Caroline Louise Nielsen (University of Northampton, UK)
19. 'Medical Objects: The Sick Poor and their Relief in Nineteenth-Century England', Steven King (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
20. 'Classed Objects: Guinea Graves and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Northern England', Rebecca Senior (University of Nottingham, UK)

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