Stories
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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.
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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.
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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.
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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
Catalogue
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Welfare state and welfare society : illusion and reality / by William A. Robson.
Robson, William A. (William Alexander), 1895-1980.Date: 1976- Books
Welfare state and welfare society report of the sixth British National Conference on Social Welfare, 9th to 13th April 1967.
British National Conference on Social Welfare 1967 : London, England)Date: [1967]- Books
Before Beveridge : welfare before the welfare state / David Gladstone (editor).
Date: 1999- Books
Our towns : a close up / Women's Group on Public Welfare.
Women's Group on Public Welfare (England). Hygiene Committee.Date: 1985- Books
Beyond the Welfare state : economic planning in the welfare states and its international implications / Gunnar Myrdal.
Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987.Date: 1965