Paul Carter

About The Author

Paul Carter is the Principal Records Specialist for Collaborative Projects in the Collections, Expertise and Engagement Department at The National Archives, UK. With Steven King and others he co-authored In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 (McGill-Queens University Press, 2022), which won both the 2022 North American Victorian Studies Association Best Book of 2022 Prize and the American Historical Association Morris D. Forkosch Prize 2023.

Books by Paul Carter

Petty Tyranny and Oppression

Workhouse Lives Under the Long Nineteenth-Century Poor Laws

By Paul Carter and Steven King
This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor. The book examines the period from the late-eighteenth-century crisis of the Old Poor Law, through the adoption of the New Poor Law reform...
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