'Rogues and Vagabonds'

Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Migrants, Itinerants and the Vagrancy Law 1815-20 2. Pass Abuses and the Vagrancy Act of 1824 3. Mendicity Societies, and Poor Casual Relief to the 1840s 4. A Gallery of Beggars (I) Sick Lurkers, Praters and Screevers 5. A Gallery of Beggars (II) Children 6. Crypto-Beggars: Pedlars, Crossing-Sweepers and Buskers 7. ‘Dens of Infamy’: Thieves’ Kitchens and Tramps’ Lodging Houses 8. Model Lodging Houses, the Sally Ann and Rowton’s 9. Lodging House Society 10. An Outline of the Casual Ward System, 1842-1914 11. ‘The Vicious Shilling’: Indiscriminate Charity and its Enemies, from 1860 12. The Freedom to Itch, and the Itch to be Free 13. A Statistical Capsule: Tramp Levels, Trade and Seasonal Cycles 14. Men’s Tramp and Ward Underlife to 1939 15. The ‘Perambulatory Dustbin’: Homeless Women and Their Shelter to 1939 16. Child Vagrancy to 1939 17. Vagrancy Act Enforcement to 1914 18. The First World War and Inter-War Depression 19. Casual Ward Developments 1918-45 20. Some Vagrant Types and Conditions between the Wars 21. Begging and Charity between the Wars 22. Vagrants, Crime and the Vagrancy Act 1935 23. Britain 1945-70: the Roofless, the Rootless and the Welfare State 24.Homelessness and the Official Response 1970-85 25. From Lodging House to Bed and Breakfast Hotel: the Story to Date 26. ‘Horizontal Meffers’ and Other Contemporary Vagrant Types 27. ‘Lazy Lewd Loiterers’: the Vagrancy Act to Date and the Inglorious History of ‘Sus’; ‘Trampoloquia’: a Select Glossary of Tramp Cant; Select Bibliography and Abbreviations; Notes and References; Index