Edexcel A-Level History 9HI0
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The Witch Craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580–c1750Paper 3
Industrialisation and Social Change in Britain, 1759–1928: Forging a New SocietyPaper 3
Poverty, Public Health and the State in Britain, c1780–1939Paper 3
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Poverty, Public Health and the State in Britain, c1780–1939
Indoor relief in poorhouses, workhouses and houses of correction
- 3 things to know
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Overview
Recall questions on the forms indoor relief took, Gilbert's Act, the Sturges-Bourne Acts and plural voting, and how uncommon indoor relief actually was.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What did the Sturges-Bourne Acts of 1818–19 introduce?
What was a poorhouse?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What forms did indoor relief take?
Model answer
Paupers were housed in workhouses, in parish poorhouses, and in houses of correction for the disorderly.
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What did Gilbert's Act of 1782 allow?
Model answer
It let parishes form unions and build workhouses for the aged and infirm only, while giving the able-bodied outdoor relief or work near home.
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What did the Sturges-Bourne Acts of 1818–19 introduce?
Model answer
Select vestries to administer relief and a system of plural voting giving wealthier ratepayers more votes.
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What was a poorhouse?
Model answer
A parish building housing the impotent poor, the aged and orphans, often small and run informally, rather than a place of deterrence.
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What was a house of correction?
Model answer
An institution for punishing vagrants and the disorderly with hard labour, distinct in principle from relief but often confused with it in practice.
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What was Knatchbull's Act of 1723?
Model answer
The Workhouse Test Act, which let parishes set up workhouses, alone or together, and strike off the relief list any poor person who refused to enter one.
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