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Poverty, Public Health and the State in Britain, c1780–1939

  • 19 subtopics
  • 54 things to know
  • Paper 3
  • Paper 3 themes option, chosen from sixteen

What Poverty, Public Health and the State in Britain, c1780–1939 covers

A Paper 3 option combining aspects in breadth on public health and changing attitudes to state intervention with aspects in depth on the old Poor Law and its reform in 1834, the pressures for change that produced the Liberal welfare reforms, and the poverty of the interwar years.

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Paper 3

Themes in breadth with aspects in depth, one option of sixteen.

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The 19 subtopics

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What you need to know

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Which individuals changed British public health?

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What did the new Poor Law of 1834 establish?

Who and when

What did the Public Health Act of 1848 establish?

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What were TB sanatoria?

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Why was the 'able-bodied pauper' seen as a problem?

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What forms did indoor relief take?

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Did outdoor relief actually end after 1834?

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What was the Andover workhouse scandal?

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What did the Charity Organisation Society do?

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What did the Liberal old age pension of 1908 provide?

Who and when

How did the decline of heavy industry cause poverty between the wars?

Who and when

What public health problems did rapid industrialisation create?

Who and when

How did advances in technology aid public health?

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Who were the Dirty Party?

Who and when

How did the press contribute to changing attitudes?

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What was the Speenhamland system?

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What did the Sturges-Bourne Acts of 1818–19 introduce?

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How did Benthamism shape the new Poor Law?

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What was the panopticon and why is it relevant?

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Who dominated the Royal Commission of 1832?

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What was the workhouse regime like?

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Who was Richard Oastler?

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Who was John Fielden?

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What change in central control followed the Andover scandal?

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How did Friendly Societies and cooperatives help people cope with poverty?

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What message did Samuel Smiles promote?

Who and when

What did Mayhew's work reveal?

Who and when

What did the Fabian Society advocate?

Who and when

Why did the Boer War recruitment figures matter?

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What came out of the four-year royal commission on poor relief that reported in 1909?

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Who wrote the Minority Report?

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What did the National Insurance Act of 1911 introduce?

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What was the regional pattern of interwar poverty?

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Who organised many of the hunger marches of the period?

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Why did Jarrow march?

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What was the Means Test and why was it hated?

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What was the 'Dole'?

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What was the miasma theory of disease?

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What was the Great Stink?

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What overall trend marked government's role in health across the period?

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How did the Elizabethan Poor Law operate?

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What was a poorhouse?

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How did political economy shape the reform?

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How reliable was the Commission's evidence?

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What was the 'workhouse test'?

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What forms did opposition take?

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What did the Andover inquiry reveal?

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How large was the friendly society movement?

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How did Dickens attack the Poor Law?

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Why did the Commission's reports produce no immediate legislation?

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What did the Trade Boards Act and Labour Exchanges Act of 1909 do?

Who and when

How did the Depression affect Britain compared with other countries?

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What was the immediate result of the Jarrow March?

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What was the Unemployment Assistance Board?

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  • Miasma theory of disease vs TB sanatoria

    Miasma theory of disease: the belief that disease was caused by 'bad air' or foul smells rising from filth and decay, rather than by germs. TB sanatoria: Institutions providing fresh air, rest and isolation to treat and contain tuberculosis sufferers.

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  1. 1

    What public health problems did rapid industrialisation create?

    Model answer

    Overcrowded, badly built housing, contaminated water, inadequate drainage and sewage disposal, producing filth and epidemic disease in towns.

  2. 2

    Why was the cholera epidemic of 1832 a turning point?

    Model answer

    Its sudden, deadly and unpredictable spread frightened all classes and forced government and public to take urban sanitary conditions seriously.

  3. 3

    What did Chadwick's 1842 report argue?

    Model answer

    His Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population linked disease and early death to filth, bad drainage and water, and urged sanitary reform to cut poor-relief costs.

  4. 4

    How did advances in technology aid public health?

    Model answer

    Improvements in engineering, glazed pipes, pumps and filtration made large-scale clean water supply and proper drainage and sewerage possible.

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    What was the miasma theory of disease?

    Model answer

    The belief that disease was caused by 'bad air' or foul smells rising from filth and decay, rather than by germs.

  6. 6

    What was life expectancy in the industrial towns?

    Model answer

    In Manchester and Liverpool in the 1840s the average age at death was about 26 for the whole population and 17 for labourers' families, roughly half the rural figure.

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What does Poverty, Public Health and the State in Britain, c1780–1939 cover in Edexcel A-Level History?
19 subtopics: the impetus for change, c1780–1939, changing attitudes to public health, central government and local initiatives in public health, individuals who improved public health, the organisation of the parish-based relief system, indoor relief in poorhouses, workhouses and houses of correction, pressures for change, reforming the poor law, the impact of the workhouse, opposition to the new poor law, changing government control, charity and self-help in dealing with poverty, smiles, mayhew and dickens on poverty, pressures for reform, the royal commission on the poor laws, 1905-09, the impact of the liberal reforms, poverty in the 1920s and 1930s, the jarrow march and the hunger marches and government measures in the 1930s. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
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