Suppose there was a way to abolish most of the edifice of the modern welfare state, virtually eliminating the bureaucracy that supports it, and still lift people out of poverty. Shouldn’t we ...

Burnley in the 1950s was a town in transition. Like much of Britain, it was still emerging from the shadow of the Second ...

Other support is aimed at specific groups for example the State Pension which gives older people an income. Why have recent governments struggled to pay for the modern welfare state? It has been ...

This is followed by a review of the development of modern welfare states in Western Europe from the last quarter of the 19th century, when many of the key institutional features of European welfare ...

The beginnings of the modern welfare state can be traced back to this period. In terms of medical care the most important of these reforms was the National Insurance Scheme, established by David ...