The Chelsea out-pensioners : image and reality in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century social care
The residential Royal Hospital of Chelsea for ‘old, lame and infirme’ soldiers was founded in 1681. Within a decade, this small hospital rapidly became the centre of one of the most extensive and efficient occupational and disability pension systems that has ever existed in Britain: the Chelsea Out-...
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
2014
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