Regional economic disparity
What Regional economic disparity means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Unemployment was concentrated in specific regions like South Wales, Scotland and the North East, and regional disparities widened during the Depression.
The industrial North and booming West contrasted sharply with the impoverished, agrarian South.
Topics that use Regional economic disparity
- 1K The making of a Superpower: USA, 1865–1975 – only) Crisis of identity, 1920–1945 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Paper 3, Option 34.2: Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939 - 5 Depression and the dole: poverty in the inter-war years, 1920–39 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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