History A-Level
Self-help and respectability
What Self-help and respectability means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Self-help and respectability
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Self-help was promoted by Samuel Smiles' 'Self-Help' (1859), advocating thrift and independence among the working classes.
Topics that use Self-help and respectability
- Paper 1, Option 1D: Britain, c1785–c1870: democracy, protest and reform - 4 Poverty and pauperism, c1785–c1870 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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