Political economists and the English poor laws: a historical study of the influence of classical economics on the formation of social welfare policy

London to walk the wards in the summer. Contrary to Turner's interpretation, it was, I would suggest, a feature of little importance in the early days. These examples are all evidences from a different historiographic tradition to which Turner, writing in the 1930s, could not address himself; a not altogether unfortunate thing perhaps, for otherwise the great might never have appeared in his title.