Connections: the Old Poor Law
1.
Cut out and arrange the cards below to make five sets of four connections.
Find the connections!
2.
Vagabonds
Gilbert
Idle poor
Knatchbull
1601
Sturdy beggars
Workhouses
Parish
Vagrants
Price of bread
Widows
Number of children
Settlement
Disabled
Wages
The sick
Orphans
Unions
Relief
Board of guardians
Explain each connection fully.
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Connections: the Old Poor Law
Teaching notes
These connections grids are based on the quiz show Only Connect’s word wall. The challenge is for students to find the connections
between the words.
An interactive version of this is available (for subscribers only) with just four rows of words.
You could go to the BBC’s Only Connect site and play the music from the quiz as a background while students try to solve the wall!
(www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Z79DzzJY8w2R58bpftq14k/quiz - you have to ‘play a wall’ to get the sound!)
Connections
Answers
1601
Gilbert
Settlement
Relief
Price of
bread
Wages
Vagrants
Sturdy
beggars
Vagabonds
Idle poor
‘Undeserving’ poor
Widows
Disabled
Orphans
The sick
‘Deserving’ poor
Workhouses
Unions
Parish
Board of guardians
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Knatchbull
Acts:
1601 Old Poor Law; ‘Settlement’ Act 1662; Knatchbull’s Act 1722-3;
Gilbert’s Act 1782
Number of children Parts of the formula of the Speenhamland system of poor relief
Responsible for providing relief
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