History A-Level
Andover workhouse scandal
What Andover workhouse scandal means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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A scandal of 1845–46, where inmates gnawed bones for food, that exposed cruelty and maladministration and discredited the Poor Law Commission.
Topics that use Andover workhouse scandal
- Paper 3, Option 34.2: Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939 - 3 The government, self-help and charity, 1847–80 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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