Great Britain · Government / Liberal Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The Local Government Board Act 1871 puts the supervision of the Poor Law under the Local Government Board and Gladstones "administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and.
unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the Charity Organisation Society (1869), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the Victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline".
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