Poverty and the Parish – Southern History Society
Come & join us on 18 October 2025 at Milner Hall, St Peter Street, Winchester SO23 8BW – Book your tickets here
Poverty and the Parish Conference Programme
Arrival 9:30 Coffee
Session 1: 9:45-11:00
Sheila Sweetingburgh – “As St Augustyne sayethe, the funeral pompes ar … [not] for the welthe & comforte of them that ar dead”: continuity and change concerning funeral doles in Tudor Kent.
Evie Nash – ‘Ye Wickedness of Ye Presbyterrians in Olivers Dayes’: The Use of the Vagrancy Laws Against Quakers in Devon, 1656.
Session 2: 11:15-12:30
Daniel Lucas – Local Authority and Poor Relief: Discretionary Power in Southampton’s Welfare System (1700-1800).
Carl Griffin – The poor law as an agent of enclosure.
Andrew Spicer – Non-Parochial Poor Relief: The French Church in Southampton, c.1685–1750.
Session 3 13:30-14:45
Shagnick Bhattacharya – (Re?)negotiating Gendered Agency: Socially Vulnerable Women, Poverty, and the Parish in Devon, c.1700–1850.
Tom Watson – Local assisted migration from Gloucestershire – the ‘Layton’ migrants of 1837.
Sophie Curtis – Festive Charity of Southern England.
Session 4 15:15-16:30
Peter Jones and Stephen King – Writing Under Stress: Materiality in the Lives and Letters of the English Poor.
Tom Heritage – The ‘Crusade against Outdoor Relief’ and the Parish in Winchester, Hampshire, 1870-1908.
Nicola Johnson – After the Titanic: Poverty, Promises and the charity that gave with hand and took with the other.
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