History A-Level
New Liberalism
What New Liberalism means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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An ideology shifting from laissez-faire individualism towards state intervention to combat poverty, championed by figures like Lloyd George and Churchill.
A departure from Gladstonian laissez-faire, emphasising state intervention to provide a minimum standard of living.
An ideology that replaced laissez-faire with state intervention to address systemic poverty.
Topics that use New Liberalism
- 1G Challenge and transformation: Britain, c1851–1964 – Challenges to the status quo, c1886–1914 (AQA A-Level)
- 2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957 – The Liberal crisis, 1906–1914 (AQA A-Level)
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- Constitutional crisis
- Emergence of the Labour Party
- Fabian Society
- Gender and society
- Globalisation and free trade
- Great Depression
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