About Steven King Steven King is professor of economic and social history at Nottingham Trent University and co-author of In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900. Books by Steven King Fraudulent Lives Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present by (author) Steven King In Their Own Write Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 by (author) Steven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Carter, Peter Jones & Carol Beardmore Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s by (author) Steven King