This book has become the standard text on the course of social policy and social ideas in Britain since the Industrial Revolution.
Drawing on the latest historical and social science research The Origins of the British Welfare State looks at the main developments in the history of social welfare provision in this period.
"This ... new history tells the story of one [of] the greatest transformations in British intellectual, social and political life: the creation of the welfare state, from the Victorian workhouse, where you had to be destitute to receive ...
This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years.
The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism examines the question of where to locate the ideological break between classical liberalism and the underlying principles of the modern Welfare State.
Traces the effects and consequences of radical economic change, moral, social, and fiscal, in the Victorian period.
A comparative analysis of social policies in Britain and France between 1914 and 1945.
This book offers a comparison of the origins of the welfare state in England and Germany (1850-1914).