History A-Level
Local Government Board
What Local Government Board means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Local Government Board
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A body created in 1871 that absorbed the Poor Law Board and centralised poor law, public health and local government business under one body.
Topics that use Local Government Board
- 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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- Andover workhouse scandal
- Laissez-faire and self-reliance
- Literature as social commentary
- Moral vs economic causes of poverty
- Parliamentary Reform Act 1867
- Poor Law Board
- Social investigation and journalism
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