The Speenhamland system was a form of outdoor relief intended to mitigate rural poverty in England and Wales at the end of the 18th century and during...

Operation of the Poor Laws 1832 called the Speenhamland System a "universal system of pauperism". The system allowed employers, including farmers and the...

Speenhamland is an area within modern Newbury, Berkshire. Its name is probably derived from Old English Spen-haema-land, "land of the inhabitants of Speen"...

upon analysis of the Speenhamland laws, which he saw not only as the last attempt of the squirearchy to preserve the traditional system of production and...

the Speenhamland system (also known as the Berkshire Bread Act) tried to address some of the problems that underlay vagrancy. The Speenhamland system was...

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infirm and introduced a system of outdoor relief for the able-bodied. This was the basis for the development of the Speenhamland system, which made financial...

emergence of a coherent and generous nationwide provision, the resulting Speenhamland system did generally manage to prevent working class commoners from starvation...

work". In 1795 the Speenhamland system was introduced as a system of outdoor relief. Again, there was variation within the system with some parishes subsidising...

semi-permanent top-up of labourers' wages—the Allowance System, Roundsman System, or Speenhamland System), Parliament had set up a Royal Commission into the...

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herself". Anne's reign was marked by the further development of a two-party system. In general, the Tories were supportive of the Anglican church and favoured...

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more closely fits the contemporary definition of basic income. The Speenhamland system was a form of poverty relief in England at the end of the 18th century...

parish fund would top up wages to a basic subsistence level (see Speenhamland system). To that mixture was added the burden of the church tithe. This...

were set up, but the supplementing of inadequate wages under the Speenhamland system did become established towards the end of the 18th century. So keen...

of the monarchy diminished, and Britain began a transition to the modern system of cabinet government led by a prime minister. Towards the end of his reign...

require military service from their clansmen and even before 1745 the clan system had been under severe stress due to changing economic conditions; the Heritable...

these laws influenced the justices of Berkshire to implement the Speenhamland system, which was the first social program in the modern sense of that word...

of "outdoor relief" or the Speenhamland system of poor relief as operated by various Poor Law Boards. Because these systems did not encourage recipients...

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by a single parliament at the Palace of Westminster, but distinct legal systems—English law and Scots law—remained in use. The formerly separate kingdoms...

The following are the rates that apply as of 27 February 2024. Speenhamland system Family Credit Working Families Tax Credit Child Tax Credit Universal...

magistrates, meeting at the George and Pelican Inn in Speenhamland, introduced the Speenhamland System which tied parish poor relief (welfare payments) to...

poor-rates were used to supplement low wages (the 'allowance' or Speenhamland system). Opposition to the Elizabethan Poor Law led to a Royal Commission...

the series of Berlin Decrees, which brought into effect the Continental System. This policy aimed to eliminate the threat from the British by closing French-controlled...

Beckford and Radicals beginning with John Wilkes called for reform of the system. In 1780, a draft programme of reform was drawn up by Charles James Fox...

fervently believed that peace in Europe was possible so long as the "Old System", a structure of alliances with European powers in which Britain had formed...

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