History & The Arts
Birth of the Welfare State
...Health Service to fruition] Bryson's words, from 1992's Welfare and the State - Who Benefits?, had the benefit of a half-century of hindsight to sum up some of the key themes of the period. There is certainly some truth in the argument that the welfare measures that were introduced in the years from 1945 to 1950 had a rather longer history. The period before the war had...