Effectiveness of anti-Poor Law movement

Question 1

Short-term

Answer 1

Well organised and very effective, but gov’t wasn’t going to back down and repeal the 1834 PLAA

Question 2

Prepared to make concessions

Answer 2

1838 - General Prohibitory Order set aside for unions in Lancashire, guardians allowed to administer relief according to Elizabethan Poor Law 1601

Question 3

Very few workhouses built until

Answer 3

1850’s and 60’s, not one in Todmorden till 1877