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1 Welfare in context, 2 Excess female mortality: constructing survival during development in Meiji Japan and Victorian England 3 Poverty, health and the politics of gender in Britain, 1870–1948 4 Octavia Hill and women’s networks in housing 5 Late nineteenth-century philanthropy: the case of Louisa Twining 6 The campaign for birth control in Britain in the 1920s 7 ‘The children’s party, therefore the women’s party’: the Labour Party and child welfare in inter-war Britain 8 Gender, welfare and old age in Britain, 1870s–1940s 9 Gender and welfare in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries