Portrait of the Scottish Poor
Rosalind Mitchison, 5 June 1980
The State of the Scottish Working Class in 1843
by Ian Levitt and Christopher Smout.
Scottish Academic Press, 284 pp., £7.50, December 1979,0 7073 0247 1 Show More
by Ian Levitt and Christopher Smout.
Scottish Academic Press, 284 pp., £7.50, December 1979,
“... This book is based on one of the most thorough of 19th-century government inquiries, the six volumes of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law (Scotland) of 1844. The Commission had, the year before, put out an elaborate questionnaire to the 906 parishes of Scotland, usually to the minister, with 70 questions on it, most of which were answered for almost all the parishes ... ”