The Poor and the Poorest, fifty years on: Evidence from British Household Expenditure Surveys of the 1950s and 1960s

This paper revisits Abel-Smith and Townsend’s landmark study of poverty in early post World War 2 Britain using the modern methods

<span title='2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>January 2017</span>&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;Ian Gazeley,&amp;thinsp;Hector Rufrancos,&amp;thinsp;Andrew Newell,&amp;thinsp;Kevin Reynolds,&amp;thinsp;Rebecca Searle