Vagrancy and the New Poor Law: The Evolution of Casual Relief in England and Wales, 1800-1919 (Routledge Studies in Modern British History)

About the Author

Brian O'Leary, a retired social worker, was awarded his Ph.D. in 2015, for work on the history of responses to vagrancy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Having had some practical experience of work with homeless persons, he began academic research on nineteenth-century vagrancy while completing an MA in 2007.