Mangion, Carmen M. (2014) Housing the ‘decayed members’ of the middle classes: social class and St Scholastica’s Retreat, 1861-1901. Continuity and Change 29 (3), pp. 373-398. ISSN 0268-4160.
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Abstract
This study of St Scholastica’s Retreat offers an opportunity to examine a charity for the middle classes and the horizontal relationship between middle-class benefactors and recipients that did not appear to stigmatise middle-class recipients of charity. Middle-class inhabitants accessed a mix of resources, from personal resources, kinship relationships, friendship and charitable networks, as part of a ‘mixed economy of welfare’ so often discussed by welfare historians in Britain. Their ‘choices’ were limited but their personal networks enabled them to maintain their middle-class identities. This research not also demonstrates the flexibility of almshouse accommodation but also the meanings inherent in the domestic space that emphasised middle-class respectability.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | almshouse, middle-class, poverty, Catholic, philanthropy |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Carmen Mangion |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2014 14:21 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:13 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/10843 |
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