Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Samantha Williams (skw30@cam.ac.uk) is Professor of Social History, University of Cambridge. Author of Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle Under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834 and Unmarried Motherhood in London, 1700-1850: Pregnancy, the Poor Law and Provision, and co-editor of Illegitimacy in Britain 1700-1920, she is currently researching the Victorian and Edwardian workhouse and also early life assurance and causes of death.