|
Date
|
Event
|
Topics
|
Details |
1662 |
Act of Settlement: poor can only receive help from their native parish. |
*Poor Law |
Details |
1696 |
Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses. |
*The Poor Law |
Details |
1723 |
The Workhouse Act or Test (to get relief, the poor person has to enter the Workhouse). The Waltham Black Act adds 50 capital offenses to the penal code: people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching. This Act has been said to "signal the onset of the floodtide of eighteenth-century retributive justice" (Thompson 23). Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate. |
*Poor Law
*Economics |
Details |
1782 |
Gilbert's Act established outdoor poor relief. |
*Radicalism
*Poor Law |
Details |
1833 |
Harriet Martineau, Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated. |
*Poor Law
*Economics |
Details |
1834 |
New Poor Law argues that indiscriminate relief demoralizes beneficiaries, abolishes outdoor relief, and maintains workhouse inmates at salary level below lowest paid workers. |
*Poor Law
*Economics |
Details |
1834 |
Reform Movement: Lord Lyndhurst declares Poor Man's Guardian not a newspaper and thus legal. |
*Parliamentary Reform
*Radicalism
*Poor Law |