1. See, for example, Pat Thane, Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000);
2. Pat Thane, “Old People and Their Families in the English Past,” in Charity, Self-Interest and Welfare in the English Past, ed. Martin Daunton (New York: Routledge, 1996), 113–38;
3. M.A. Crowther, “Family Responsibility and State Responsibility in Britain before the Welfare State,” Historical Journal 25, no. 1 (1982): 131–45;
4. Margaret Pelling and Richard M. Smith, eds, Life, Death, and the Elderly: Historical Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 1991);
5. L.A. Botelho, Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500–1700 (Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2004);