History A-Level
Poor law finance and ratepayer anxiety
What Poor law finance and ratepayer anxiety means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Wartime spending and the allowance system pushed poor rates up, especially in southern agricultural parishes, alarming ratepayers and landowners.
Topics that use Poor law finance and ratepayer anxiety
- Paper 3, Option 34.2: Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939 - 1 Paupers and pauperism, 1780–1832 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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