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Anniversaries
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Births: Gerhardus Mercator (Gerhard Kremer), cartographer,
1512; Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, painter, 1696; Sir Austen Henry
Layard, archaeologist, 1817; William Henry, first Baron Beveridge,
of the Beveridge Report on social insurance, 1879; Sir Rex Carey
Harrison, actor, 1908. Deaths: Antonio Allegri da Correggio,
painter, 1534; Thomas Augustine Arne, composer ("Rule, Britannia")
1778; Flora Macdonald, Jacobite heroine, 1790; Sergei Sergeyevich
Prokofiev, composer, 1953; Joseph Stalin (Iosif...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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On this day.
The Birmingham Post (England)
; 1942: Publication of pioneering Beveridge Report: Few government reports have had such a significant impact as William Henry Beveridge's wartime report that provided the blueprint for Britain's celebrated welfare state. Born at Rangpur, Bengal, Beveridge had enjoyed a distinguished career as an
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Commission on Social justice: Beveridge's appeal for an attack on five giant evils
The Independent - London
; When the Beveridge report was published on 1 December 1942 with its clarion call for an attack on the "five giant evils" of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness, queues formed all night outside the Stationary Office's Kingsway headquarters - barely a hundred yards from where the Borrie
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BOOK REVIEW
The Independent - London
; Ground-breaking study of how Attlee's politics replaced Baldwin's, and the policies of a wartime government (famously, the Beveridge report) led to the creation of the welfare state. Nearly 20 years on from his book's first appearance, Addison provides an epilogue to answer his critics and to
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(book review)
Business History
; HELEN FAWCETT and RODNEY LOWE (eds Welfare Policy in Britain: The Road From 1945 (London: Macmillan for ICBH, 1999. Pp.xi + 226. ISBN 0 333 67513 4, [pounds]45). Rodney Lowe, in the introduction to this volume of essays, the product of a 1995 conference on British History, 1945-1995: the State of
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60 years on but fight continues
Evening News - Scotland
; SIXTY years ago this week saw the publication of the report on Social Insurance and Allied Services, better known as the Beveridge Report. The report laid the foundation stones for our present day welfare state and, to this day, informs the debate about its future. Born in 1879, William Beveridge
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'O brave new social order': the controversy over planning in Australia and Britain in the 1940s.
Journal of Australian Studies
; When Michael Oakeshott referred to politicians who proffered social blueprints as 'sanctimonious' he joined a growing band of commentators expressing doubts about the virtues and even possibility of a 'self-consciously planned society'. (1) Labels such as 'snobbish' and 'priggish' had been applied
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British bulldog afraid to bare taxation teeth
The Scotsman
; BEFORE Gordon Brown stood up to speak, bookmakers were offering 6- 4 that he would mention "Britain" fewer than five times in his speech. By the end of the first 40 seconds, they had lost. Yesterday's pre-Budget report was about Britain, about Mr Brown being British (rather than just Scottish) and
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 "The Economist (US)")
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In Sir William's shadow. (British politician Frank Field, inheritor of the seat of welfare state inventor Sir William Beveridge)
The Economist (US)
; ... war, when he was already in his 60s. He was so disappointed by the job he eventually landed-co-ordinating social insurance-that news of the appointment brought tears to his eyes. And yet, on December 1st 1942, he produced the report that was eventually to change ...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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ON THIS DAY.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual went on sale. It featured A Study in Scarlet by Conan Doyle, which introduced Sherlock Holmes. 1939 The world premiere of Gone With The Wind, in New York. 1942 The Beveridge Report on Social Security was issued. It formed the basis for the welfare state in Britain.
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No escape from the poverty trap
The Independent - London
; The Five Giants by Nicholas Timmins Harper Collins, pounds 25 It was the noblest idea of the century. Britain's post-war determination to slay the "five giant evils" of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness was built on a rare spout of national altruism. When the Beveridge Report was
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