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UK Poverty facts Nearly 13 million people live in poverty in the UK – that’s 1 in 5 of population. (2009) How is poverty calculated? Poverty is calculated as 60% of median income after housing costs. This is a measure of poverty used by most researchers, the EU and the UK government. UK Poverty facts Nearly 13 million people live in poverty in the UK – that’s 1 in 5 of population. (2009) How is poverty calculated? Poverty is calculated as 60% of median income after housing costs. This is a measure of poverty used by most researchers, the EU and the UK government. UPJV Amiens Brit. Civ. CM4

1. Political power in pre-industrial England 2. The Tudors and the Stuarts 3. The Poor A Background B From voluntary relief to state involvement C The ‘Old’ Poor Laws D The Settlement Act (1662) UPJV Amiens Brit. Civ. CM5

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 1.1 CATEGORIZATION  1The deserving, helpless Poor  2The undeserving / rogues and vagabonds  3the able-bodied Poor 1.2THE POOR RATES 1572 : the Poor Rates (local poor tax) 1576 : the Workhouse 1597 :The Overseer ( a ‘substantial householder’ of the community)  UPJV Amiens Brit. Civ. CM10

 The establishment of the parish as the administrative unit responsible for poor relief, with churchwardens or parish overseers collecting poor-rates and allocating relief.  The provision of materials such as flax, hemp and wool to provide work for the able-bodied poor.  The setting to work and apprenticeship of children  The relief of the 'impotent' poor — the old, the blind, the lame (handicapped), and so on. This could include the provision of 'houses of dwelling' — almshouses or poorhouses rather than workhouses.  the census of the poor  the punishment of the undeserving poor UPJV Amiens Brit. Civ. CM11

 To be born in a parish of legally settled parent(s) or marrying in the parish (for women)  Up to 1662 by living there for 3 years. After 1662 possible eviction within 40 days. After 1691 : 40 days’ notice before moving in.  Renting property worth more than £10 per annum in the parish or paying taxes on such a property, by renting a property  Holding a Parish Office.  Being hired by a legally settled inhabitant for a continuous period of a year 365 days.  Having served a full apprenticeship to a legally settled man for the full 7 years.  Having previously been granted poor relief (‘settlement examination’). UPJV Amiens Brit. Civ. CM12

1. British politics 2. The Agrarian and industrial revolutions A The cottage industry B The enclosure movement 3. The Speenhamland System 4. Society and Art  UPJV Amiens Brit. Civ. CM13

George 1 st George 2 nd George 3 rd 1760 – 1820 George IV (19thcentury )  THE HOUSE OF COMMONS : PRIME MINISTERS WHIGS versus TORIES 1721 –  UPJV Amiens Brit. Civ. CM14

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 Source : E.A. Wrigley, People, cities and wealth (Oxford 1987) UPJV Amiens Brit. Civ. CM22 LONDON200 LONDON 575 LONDON 959 NORWICH 15NORWICH 30MANCHESTER 89 YORK 12BRISTOL 21LIVERPOOL 83 BRISTOL 12NEWCASTLE 16BIRMINGHAM 74 NEWCASTLE 9EXETER 14BRISTOL 60 EXETER 9YORK 12LEEDS

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1. Power and ‘classes’ 2. culture and art Two emblematic painters : William Hogarth Thomas Gainsborough UPJV Amiens Brit. Civ. CM27

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1. 1.British politics and Society : A. Political and economic life B. The Victorian Age 2. The New Poor Laws 1. Sturges Bourne’s Act 2. The New Poor Laws of the 1830s  The notion of Poverty/Pauperism  The commission of 1832  The new Poor Laws of 1834  Victorian philanthropy The social novels UPJV Amiens Brit. Civ. CM29

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