Government policy
What Government policy means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Reference: OCR
The 1823 Gaols Act followed campaigns by reformers for better conditions, and later Victorian reforms introduced the separate system at Pentonville.
Official responses from the government included both encouragement, such as inviting Flemish weavers, and restriction, like the 1905 Aliens Act.
Alongside public hostility, this led to attacks on 'enemy aliens', civilians from enemy nations living in Britain, during both World Wars.
Topics that use Government policy
- Thematic Study: Crime and Punishment, c.1250 to present (OCR GCSE)
- Thematic Study: Migrants to Britain, c.1250 to present (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Public attitudes
- Social attitudes
- Urbanisation
- Asylum-seekers
- Authority and control
- Bloody Code
- Causes of migration and expulsion
- Changing attitudes to punishment
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