The History of United Kingdom

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DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL POLICY AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS
POVERTY
1.1 Analyze the development of social welfare from a historical perspective
The history of United Kingdom prior to 19th century was determined by atrocities of
the emperors and, the monarchs and there existed, a huge disparity between the various types
of societies and the cultures that, was discriminated on the basis of novelty and the poor. On
the overall, the various types of customs and traditions were so inherent in the society that
were targeted at the welfare of the royalties and the oppression of the poor (Brown, 2018).
Prior to 19th century, the social and the economic factors were driven by the events that later
on lead to the colonization and the industrialization in the 19th century (Broadberry et al.,
2018). The events that shaped the development of social welfare were many and one of such
events was Black plague that affected the United Kingdom, in a very massive manner. The
Black Death which was also known as Black Death affected the huge area of Eurasia and
took a heavy toll on lives of the people as well as the fact that the novelty section of the
society had the better protection against the spread and affection with black death as
compared to the other rural and community parts of society and this social disparity which
ran parallel with the economic disparity caused the impact of Black Death even more deadlier
with the lower and oppressed sections of the United, Kingdom society, thus increasing
poverty (Lindert & Williamson, 2017). In this historical event, the population declined and
the wages increased to great limits as there was shortage of the healthy labor who would,
handle the trades in a better manner (Montaigne, 2017). This event in addition to the agro
based trades which was very integral in those days and the farmers plus the workers who
worked in the cottage and the other factories were very oppressed in terms of rights and a
heavy taxation that was levied from the oppressed and the middle classes that then led to
various sociopolitical disruption in United Kingdom. This increased the level of poverty in

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United Kingdom. The age of reasons started to embark in the veins of the society and more
rational and ethical approaches targeted at shifting the pace of justice and equity against
discrimination and poverty, was beginning already by the end of the 19th century. The French
revolution also played a very important role in development of more justified approaches
across the stretch of Europe that affected the sociological reasoning in United Kingdom as
well, which was then targeted towards bringing equity and eliminating or reducing poverty.
2.1 Analyse different attitudes and views to social welfare reforms from the 19th C.
onward, using primary and secondary data
From the historical perspective, the various changes in the society and the culture of
United Kingdom began that later on changed to the various reforms by the beginning of the
19th century and the idea of social welfare through the work various authors and the activists
started to circle around the ideas of liberal conservation and movements were directed more
towards equalizing the ranks and the rights of the people who live in the society and cultural
framework of the same region and the country. The wages were started to get more fairly
distributed to the worker section of the society and the various types, of rights and the
privileges that are dominated by upper ranks of the society – started to flow equally through
different parts of the society, just affecting how the societies and the class segments in the
countries covered in United Kingdom dealt with class, power and society and this reformed
the causations of poverty in the better manner. The language of ethics, liberalism and equity
formed the core of literature, visual and the musical movements by the beginning of
nineteenth century only. These led to development of social welfare in context with Worker’s
Rights and Parliamentary reform, Education and Social Welfare, targeted at reducing poverty.
Goldman, L. (2018) aims to study Social Reform and the Pressure of ‘Progress’ on
Parliament and the researcher of this scholarly historical study is targeted at understanding