Charity and the welfare state: A new directive from the Mass Observation Project
May 30, 2018
Seventy-five years ago, in the middle of the Second World War, William Beveridge published a report which set out the foundations for the British welfare state. It identified ‘the five giant evils’ of British society: squalor, want, ignorance, idleness and disease. Beveridge proposed a range of measures to address these evils. These included: the introduction … More Charity and the welfare state: A new directive from the Mass Observation Project
