**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

The book explores how the administration of the Old Poor Law directly affected the population. Drawing on more than ten years of detailed research into The Lives of the Rural Georgian Poor in Somerset 1700–1834, Anne Murch brings to life a picture of what it was really like to be a member of the rural poor during the Georgian period. Aspects of rural day-to-day life are considered in detail, ranging from housing and clothes to health care and funerals. The study is primarily based on the accounts of the overseers of the poor for six Somerset rural villages during the 18th and early 19th century from 1700–1834 but the author draws on a wealth of research including both local and national primary and secondary source material.