The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
There are valuable lessons to be learned from the England of the 1600s.
Considerations of whether children and young people are deserving of help are reminiscent of 19th-century approaches to child services.
The desire to treat all those in poverty via one policy stems from the same impulses that led to reform of poor laws in the 19th century.
In the past internal migrants were feared and mistreated by law.