History A-Level
Outdoor relief
What Outdoor relief means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Outdoor relief
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Relief given outside the workhouse, which continued especially in industrial areas because workhouses could not accommodate all and local resistance persisted.
Topics that use Outdoor relief
- Paper 3, Option 34.2: Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939 - 2 Less eligibility: the Poor Law Amendment Act and its impact, 1832–47 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Less eligibility
- Local resistance versus national policy
- Poor Law Commission
- Radical parliamentary campaigning
- Royal Commission of Enquiry
- Tory radicalism and factory reform
- Workhouse test
- Chadwick
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