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Podcast - For Your Welfare

Posted on 8 August 2018

Listen to the story of the launch of the UK’s Welfare State, in a conversation with Dr Chris Renwick.

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Dr Chris Renwick, of the University’s Department of History, has written ‘Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State’, which he describes as a “deep history” of the ground breaking concept. But was the public ready for the Welfare State and who would be its biggest winners and losers?

Click the image on the left to hear the podcast.