History A-Level
Financial and administrative modernisation
What Financial and administrative modernisation means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Financial and administrative modernisation
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Pitt tackled national debt through the Sinking Fund, reduced sinecures and established the Consolidated Fund to streamline government efficiency.
Topics that use Financial and administrative modernisation
- 1F Industrialisation and the people: Britain, c1783–1885 – Pressure for change, c1783–1812 (AQA A-Level)
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