Exam Technique =D

Content:

Context:

Comment:

Judgement:

What is happening in the source.

This is where you analyse what the source is saying.

 What was happening at the time the souce was published.

This is where you make your own decision on what the message of the source is trying to give.

Exam Technique =D 

Reliability:

reliable, because it is from the right period?

reliable, because the camera always tells the truth?

unreliable, because it is a government photograph?

Exam Technique =DUsefulness:

1.  Useless because it is unreliable? bias
2. Useful because it tells us what attitudes people had? what the goverment wanted?

How British Society Changed 1890-1918

Helping the Sick

Helping the Unemployed

The Sick-In the 19th century, people had recognised that sick people could not work. The poor law included the construction of hospitals offering free treatment

The Unemployed- By the end of the 19th century, the poor law had softened on the unemployed. This allowed local councils to to provide work for the unemployed.

How British Society Changed 1890-1918

 Helping the elderly

Helping the Young

The elderly were entitled to outdoor relief, this meant that elderly people could go to live in a workhouse, with a allowances for luxuries such as tea and tobacco.

children went into workhouses with their parents, but were treated less harshly than the adults. they were also sent to live with local familys.

Key Reformers

Charles Booth

Seebohm Rowntree

Booth published books using evidence from house to house enquiries, school record, census reviews and interviews with locals. Her discovered poverty started at less than £1 a week and 30% of people were below this line

Rowntree found that it was exactly the same in York and proved that the poor law didnt work.