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Guardian: A William Beveridge for this century's welfare state
[The Guardian (blog)] - William Beveridge wept when he was appointed chair of the committee to rationalise Britain's system of social insurance. Beveridge wanted to be in charge of manpower on the home front to help defeat the Nazis. But once he realised the potential of
2012: All this and a diamond jubilee, too
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - From Balliol, went to live for three years at the university settlement in Whitechapel, Toynbee Hall, at the same time as his friend William Beveridge, whose sister he was to marry. Supported the Workers' Educational Association.
Google News: 2011, a year between worlds
[Open Democracy] - The best lesson that the 1930s-40s present to us is that even in the midst of conflict we can keep one eye on the future (think of William Beveridge planning the welfare state as war raged). The worst lesson is that ideological conflict can only be
Guardian: In Defence of Learning edited by Shula Marks et al - review
[The Guardian] - In April 1933, Sir William Beveridge, then the director of the LSE, was visiting Vienna when the newspapers reported the wave of dismissals of Jewish professors from German and Austrian universities that immediately followed the enactment of Nazi laws
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