Stories
- Article
Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
- Book extract
Permission to recover
When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Gavin Francis argues why being given permission to recover is so important.
- Article
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
- Article
Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Social Welfare
Date: 1976-1984Reference: SA/PAT/D/47Part of: The Patients Association- Archives and manuscripts
Social Welfare Services Coordination
Date: 1962Reference: SA/AHR/E.15Part of: Association of Health and Residential Care Officers- Archives and manuscripts
Social Welfare in Greece
Date: 1955-1956Reference: PP/EDM/B/6/2/20Part of: Personal papers of Edith Morgan (1920-2003)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Social Welfare Committee: Memorandum on Local Authority Social Workers
Date: 1956Reference: PP/NGH/16Part of: Harris, Noel Gordon (1897-1963)- Books
Social welfare work in Jamaica : a study of the Jamaica Social Welfare Commission / by Roger Marier.
Marier, Roger.Date: [1953]