History & The Arts
Birth of the Welfare State
...climate of relief after the war, a climate diffused with an idealism for a new, more just society, welfare legislation had bipartisan support. There was a clear sense of rebuilding a better Britain...[Nye Bevan, who brought Beveridge's vision of a National Health Service to fruition] Bryson's words, from 1992's Welfare and the State - Who Benefits?, had the benefit of a...