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Bad housing conditions also constituted a major cause of poverty in the post-war era. In the early-1960s, it was estimated that three million families lived in "slums, near slums on grossly overcrowded conditions", while a 1967 housing survey of England and Wales found that 11.7% of all dwellings were unfit. [12]
Classes and Cultures: England 1918-1951 (2000) pp 111–26. Pugh, Martin. 'We Danced All Night': A Social History of Britain Between the Wars (2008) review by Piers Brendon in The Guardian 4 July 2008; Srinivasan, Naveen, and Pratik Mitra. "Interwar Unemployment in the UK and the US: Old and New Evidence."
Liberals, Radicals and Social Politics 1892–1914 (Cambridge UP, 1973) online. Englander, David. Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834–1914: From Chadwick to Booth (Routledge, 2015). Fraser, Derek. The evolution of the British welfare state: a history of social policy since the Industrial Revolution (2nd ed. 1984).
The following article presents a timeline of the poor law system in England from its origins in the Tudor and Elizabethan era to its abolition in 1948. 1300s [ edit ]
Before the official establishment of the modern welfare state, clear examples of social welfare existed to help the poor and vulnerable within British society. A key date in the welfare state's history is 1563; when Queen Elizabeth I's government encouraged the wealthier members of society to give to the poor, [2] by passing the Poor Act 1562.
A Social History of England, 900-1200. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-13950-085-2. Daunton, M. J. Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700–1850 (1995) [ISBN missing] Devine, T. M. and Rosalind Mitchison. People and Society in Scotland: A Social History of Modern Scotland: 1760–1830 (1988)
The Liberal welfare reforms (1906–1914) were a series of acts of social legislation passed by the Liberal Party after the 1906 general election. They represent the Liberal Party's transition rejecting the old laissez faire policies and enacting interventionist state policies against poverty and thus launching the modern welfare state in the ...
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