A2 British state and people

Salisbury's ministry:

• 1892 Free Elementary education was introduced for the first time, with fees for children attending board schools abolished.
• 1888 Allotment Act made land available for rural labourers and relieved tenants of paying to landowners.
• 1890 Housing of the Working classes Act granted councils power to close insanitary dwellings and replace them with council-built hiyses.
• 1890 Factory Act- children under 11 years was not allowed and women had working hours uo to 12.
• Almost 50% of the labouring classes earned 75% a week.
• 1886- mobs smashed shop windows and set fire to cabs and carriages in West London.
• 1889- Lond dockers came out on strike and public support for their demand for a…